MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY TRUST

Registered charity 1137652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q52851390 · also registered in Scotland as SC044535 (OSCR)

We strive to protect the public health; Providing information, support & extending the range of services available to people with MSA, their families & carers; Educating healthcare professionals on MSA; Improving awareness/understanding & promoting/sponsoring research into causes, diagnosis & treatment; Working with other charities which support those affected by MSA or neurological conditions.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC, INPARTICULAR, BY:(A) THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND SUPPORT, INCLUDING PRACTICAL AND WELFARESUPPORT, TO THOSE AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY ('MSA'), THEIR FAMILIESAND CARERS;(B) EDUCATING AND INFORMING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ON ALL ASPECTS OF MSA;(C) PROMOTING AND SPONSORING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENTOF MSA;(D) IMPROVING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF MSA;(E) PROMOTING THE EXTENSION OF THE RANGE OF SUPPORT SERVICES AVAILABLE TO PEOPLEWITH MSA, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; AND(F) WORKING WITH OTHER CHARITIES WHICH SUPPORT THOSE AFFECTED BY MSA OR OTHERNEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £538,923 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £2,951,481 to £2,412,558. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains operational reserves of six months' costs, estimated at £575,000, which is supported by an investment account holding £2,969,656 as of September 2025. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Harris & Co (Accountants) Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — Multiple System Atrophy Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~15.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Stephenson
• Carole Barbra Ferguson Walker
• David Barnes
• Dr Christopher Kobylecki · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Jalesh Panicker
• Leslie Turano-Taylor
• Philip Dennis Morris
• Philip Gibbons
• Professor David Oliver

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (NW) LIMITED.

• THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (NW) LIMITED income £223k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST income £3.1m
• MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT income £14k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (SOUTH YORKSHIRE) LIMITED income £150k
• ENDEAVOUR HEALTH CHARITY TRUST income £52k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY income £30.7m

Side by side with its peers

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