LOCAL MENCAP BARNSLEY

Registered charity 1176028 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ADVANCE RELIGION AMONGST PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY; ANDB) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a profit of £38,351 for the year ended 30 November 2025, with total income of £133,813 against total expenditure of £95,416. Net assets increased to £58,542, up from £20,191 in the previous year, indicating a strengthened financial position. The financial statements were prepared in accordance with micro-entity provisions and were not audited.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Local Mencap Barnsley (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Keith Joneschair
• James Robert Webb · trustee of 1 other charity
• LES SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Charlesworth
• Raymond James Riley
• Samantha Elisabeth Hammond
• Susan Corp
• ann lorraine evans
• julie hyde

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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