MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION NETWORK

Registered charity 1095908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M.E.E.N.

MEEN supports teachers, organisations & individuals working to promote Education for Sustainable Development. To achieve this we offer opportunities to share good practice & network, run training events & INSET, provide a directory & newsletter.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: MANCHESTER.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £18,151 for the year ended March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £60,559. The trustees state that this level of free reserves is sufficient to cover approximately six months of running costs plus an employment contingency, as per their stated reserves policy. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Manchester City Council — “MEEN organises the Green Schools Network (funded by Manchester City Council) with termly meetings aimed at Eco Coordinators, Sustainability…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amer Elmoez Obeid
• Andrew George Clark
• CAROLINE DOWNEY
• LYDIA MERYLL
• MR JOSH STEINER
• Mark Stein
• Rasheed Olakunle Lawal
• Susan Brown

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).