NMC MIDLANDS LTD

Registered charity 1148855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MD Support Centre, Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre, Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre/MD Support Centre, NMC MIDLANDS

NMC Midlands, working name Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre, is a Midlands-based charity dedicated to supporting the physical and mental well-being of individuals living with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular conditions. We offer specialist physical therapies and support to empower service users to manage the effects of muscle-wasting and retain independence and quality of life.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE HEALTH FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY AND RELATED NEUROMUSCULAR CONDITIONS BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £132,068 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total expenditure of £635,506 against income of £503,438. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £246,733, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy of holding three to six months of annual expenditure. The trustees are confident that sufficient funding will be available to continue operations for the next 12 months.

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 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.

• 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
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08132198

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MD Support Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• SWEET, Natasha Irene — director, appointed 16/09/2026on trustee list
• GORDON, Ian Thomas — director, appointed 18/03/2026on trustee list
• MILLER, Daniel Adrian — director, appointed 18/03/2026not on trustee list
• DOWLING, Paul Leo — director, appointed 25/04/2025on trustee list
• FLEMMING, Roger — director, appointed 03/02/2017on trustee list
• HEREFORD, Ruth — director, appointed 01/01/2014on trustee list
• SEHMBI, Jagdeep Kaur — director, appointed 01/10/2012on trustee list
• FIELD, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/07/2012on trustee list
• FIELD, Mark Lorenzo Arkinstall — director, appointed 05/07/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% 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: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUTH LEE HEREFORDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dan Miller
• IAN GORDON · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAGDEEP KAUR SEHMBI
• JANE FIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK LORENZO ARKINSTALL FIELD
• Natasha Sweet
• PAUL LEO DOWLING
• ROGER FLEMMING

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEUROMUSCULAR CENTRE.

• NEUROMUSCULAR CENTRE income £1.4m
• MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GROUP OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND income £7.9m
• NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL income £108.7m
• MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY SUPPORT GROUP income £136k
• MIDDLESBROUGH M S THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED income £62k
• Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance income £271k

Side by side with its peers

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