MERTON MENCAP

Registered charity 1113444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of projects and services for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and for their parents/carers, promoting choice, opportunity, independence and inclusion, and raising awareness and understanding of learning disability

Objects

3.1.1 THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP ANDSUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENTLEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ; AND3.2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIMEOCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THEOBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.“LEARNING DISABILITY” MEANS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANYASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MILD, MODERATE OR SEVERE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £64,759 for the year, with total income of £766,855 against total expenditure of £831,614. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £278,041, representing four months of operating expenditure cover, which is within the stated policy target of three to six months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Merton Mencap (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Drummondchair
• Alfredo Benedicto
• Brian Treadwell
• Caroline Kitto
• IAN NEWMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• JULIAN FREDERICK JOHN WALTON
• Monica Stannard
• Patrick Donald Fraser

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

Operates in: Merton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MELTON MENCAP income £655k
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k
• PEMBROKESHIRE MENCAP LTD income £402k
• MENCAP MON income £210k
• HUNTINGDON MENCAP SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.7m
• MENCAP IN KIRKLEES income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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