MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRIALS COLLABORATION (MSTC)

Registered charity 1113598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MSTC

To provide patients with MS who are not suitable for current therapies, access to pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials. Furthermore, to use generated income by undertaking pharmaceutical clinical trials to devise & administer research-led clinical trials thereby providing greater access to potential treatments to more MS patients.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IN THE WEST LONDON AREA.IN ADDITION THE MSTC WOULD LOOK TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.

Area of benefit: WEST LONDON

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

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Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£51k
Latest spending
£4k
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted funds of £335,694 at the year end, which is in line with its policy to hold reserves sufficient to cover three months of operational expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the authorization of the statements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months operational expenditure (reserves figure: £336k)
“Its current policy is to hold unrestricted, undesignated reserves sufficient to cover three months operational expenditure.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 02/02/2026, 2 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 15/01/2026, 349 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 09/06/2025, 495 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 18/04/2023, 77 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£51k£4k
31/03/2024£51k£16k
31/03/2023£103k£51k
31/03/2022£58k£26k
31/03/2021£3k£41k

Common questions

Is MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRIALS COLLABORATION (MSTC) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted funds of £335,694 at the year end, which is in line with its policy to hold reserves sufficient to cover three months of operational expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the authorization of the statements. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund15/05/2020£29kSupporting vulnerable families through Covid-19

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRIALS COLLABORATION (MSTC)£51k—0within—no doubt
MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT FY2024£14k—0below—no doubt
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST FY2025£3.1m——above—no doubt
WEST YORKSHIRE MS THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£261k——above—no doubt
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY FY2025£30.7m——below—no doubt
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (SOUTH YORKSHIRE) LIMITED FY2025£150k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.