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EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT MENCAP LIMITED

Registered charity 1125686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide help and support for people with a learning disability, their families, dependants and carers to enable those with a learning disability to live as full a life as their disability will allow.We support beneficiaries in our three residential care homes, supported living bungalow. We also have a day service

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Latest income
£2.9m
Latest spending
£3.1m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £129,928 before depreciation for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant increases in staffing costs and agency worker reliance. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £385,710, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £300,000, though cash balances decreased substantially from £767,726 to £324,633. The trustees acknowledge financial pressures from government increases in National Insurance and minimum wage that have outpaced local authority fee uplifts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £300,000 (held: £386k)
“The level of free reserves required to achieve this amount had been approved hy the Trustees at £300,000 which is the sum the Trustees consider necessary to cover ongoing costs if there is a delay in receiving funding from East Sussex County Council” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Training services provided by On Target Training Network Ltd, a company where Trustee M Stubbs is the director.
“During the year, training was provided by On Target Training Network td, Trustee M Stubbs is the company director and provided the training, Total invoices raised In the year totalled £11,055 (2024: £13,600)” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by James Todd and Co Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Inspire Sussex (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £525k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Eastbourne & District Mencap Limited — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 14/01/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£2.9m
Total spending
£3.1m
Cost of raising funds
£3k
Reserves (reported)
£386k
Employees
92

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.9m£3.1m
31/03/2024£3.2m£2.6m
31/03/2023£2.2m£2.4m
31/03/2022£2.1m£2.2m
31/03/2021£2.3m£1.9m

Common questions

Is EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT MENCAP LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £129,928 before depreciation for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant increases in staffing costs and agency worker reliance. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £385,710, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £300,000, though cash balances decreased substantially from £767,726 to £324,633. The trustees acknowledge financial pressures from government increases in National Insurance and minimum wage that have outpaced local authority fee uplifts. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by James Todd and Co Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE BAILY THOMAS CHARITABLE FUND2£50k
THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST1£26k
THE HARPENDEN TRUST1£25k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO1£5k
THE GREEN HALL FOUNDATION1£4k
THE RIX-THOMPSON-ROTHENBERG FOUNDATION1£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HASTINGS AND BEXHILL MENCAP SOCIETY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT MENCAP LIMITED£2.9m——unclear—no doubt
HASTINGS AND BEXHILL MENCAP SOCIETY FY2025£1.7m——unclear—no doubt
HERTSMERE MENCAP FY2025£183k—0above—no doubt
GRANTHAM AND DISTRICT MENCAP LIMITED FY2025£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY FY2026£247.3m£196,248—unclear—no doubt
EAST KENT MENCAP FY2025£3.4m——above—no doubt

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