SLOUGH SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHLDREN AND ADULTS

Registered charity 1128732 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Slough Mencap runs an evening social clubs for our members with Learning Disabilities. We also run daytime activities 2 days a week. The evening club is responsible for enhancing the confidence and social skills of our members as well as reducing isolation. In addition we run various parties and outings for our members. We offer free advice to our members on all sorts of issues.

Objects

(I) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELPAND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TOPREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT(II) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURETIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITYWITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource deficit of £78,920 for the year, driven by increased staffing costs, utility bills, and significant fire safety upgrades. However, the trustees report that unrestricted free reserves of £873,720 remain more than sufficient to meet the charity's reserves policy and continue core activities despite the deficit.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Cablechair
• Carmel O'Brien
• James Robb
• Leonard William Jones
• MARY BERNARDETTE BATES
• Sajidhah Chaudhary
• Surinder Singh Suri

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

Operates in: Slough

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ISLE OF WIGHT MENCAP income £604k
• KEYNSHAM AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY income £176k
• SOCIAL LIFE OPPORTUNITIES (SOLO) income £2.3m
• SLOUGH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT & SHOPMOBILITY income £561k
• MID WARWICKSHIRE SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS income £1.6m
• KINGSTON SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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