HUNTINGDON MENCAP SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1101927 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of people with a learning disability in particular by the provision of help and support for them and for their families, dependants and carers, and to prevent learning disabilities for the public benefit and to advance religion amongst persons with a learning disability.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ADVANCE RELIGION AMONGST PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY; AND2. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE."LEARNING DISABILITY MEANS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWSOEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MIND. MODERATE OR SEVERE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRCATICE CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £430,945, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately three months' total expenditure (£420,000). The charity reported a net income surplus of £49,003 for the year, with the majority of its incoming resources derived from charitable activities. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by GH Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04730602

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sue Roberts — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Malcolm Ryman — Chairperson (of the Parkinson's society, not Huntingdon Mencap) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SPRATT, Shelley — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• SHEARS, Terence — director, appointed 01/03/2018on trustee list
• DULEY, Susan — director, appointed 17/01/2018on trustee list
• RYMAN, Malcolm Philip — director, appointed 17/01/2018on trustee list
• ROBSON, Pauline Theresa — director, appointed 11/04/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £128k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Huntingdon Mencap Society Limited — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 19/02/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Hunts Mencap Hub: Good (16/03/2018) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Moir
• Malcolm Ryman
• Pauline Robson
• Shelley Spratt
• Susan Duley
• Terence Shears

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENCAP MON.

• MENCAP MON income £210k
• MERTON MENCAP income £767k
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k
• MELTON MENCAP income £655k
• PEMBROKESHIRE MENCAP LTD income £402k
• HINCKLEY AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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