STOKE MANDEVILLE SPINAL RESEARCH

Registered charity 1183744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q50038011

The aim of the charity is to improve the lives of those suffering from spinal cord injury by giving grants to researchers to undertake projects, specifically in the areas of pressure ulcers, pain, urinary tract infections and upper limb assistive technologies.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY FUNDING RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, CURE AND REHABILITATION OF SPINAL CORD INJURY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF SPINAL CORD INJURY AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £46,494 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £803,460 to £756,966. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £650,189, which is below the stated policy target of three years' operating costs, though the charity maintains sufficient cash reserves to cover the following year's budgeted costs.

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 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Fletchers Solicitors — “Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research 'Quality of Life Matters' CPD-Accredited Study Day, sponsored by Fletchers Solicitors” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD TOLKIENchair
• Jamie Polk
• Nigel Henderson
• Philippe Vienot
• Professor Susan Barnett
• Zoe McDougall

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

Operates in: 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.

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 SPINE FOUNDATION.

• THE SPINE FOUNDATION income £70k
• THE NICHOLLS SPINAL INJURY FOUNDATION income £457k
• SPINE income £29k
• INTERNATIONAL SPINAL RESEARCH TRUST income £3.4m
• PINDERFIELDS SPINAL INJURIES CENTRE LIMITED income £73k
• DOWNS SYNDROME RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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