MS TOGETHER

Registered charity 1200565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TOGETHER

MS Together exists to provide services of advice and support to people affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS), with a particular focus on those aged 18-35 living with MS in the UK.

Objects

"THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS), WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THOSE LIVING WITH MS AGED 18-35, BY PROVIDING SERVICES FOR SUPPORT AND ADVICE."

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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Registered contact address: Wigan, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a strong financial position with a surplus of £99,276 and total unrestricted reserves of £126,994. This exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining free reserves equivalent to approximately six months of core operating costs. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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 — MS Together (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Marc Anthony Smithchair
• Annabelle Bridges
• Dr Niraj Mistry
• Georgia OCallaghan
• Hannah Verghese
• Kristina Cuppari
• Ruth Stross
• Samantha Yuille
• Tom Jamison
• Vanessa Vallely Mes

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · 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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT.

• MS COMMUNITY ACTION & SUPPORT income £14k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST income £3.1m
• SUFFOLK MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE income £252k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS-UK LIMITED income £1.6m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY income £30.7m
• WEST YORKSHIRE MS THERAPY CENTRE LIMITED income £261k

Side by side with its peers

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