MEATH EPILEPSY CHARITY

Registered charity 200359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MEATH EPILEPSY TRUST, THE MEATH HOME OF COMFORT FOR EPILEPTIC WOMEN AND GIRLS, THE MEATH TRUST

The Meath Epilepsy Trust provides fully supported residential care; on and off site day activities; and domiciliary services for people with complex epilepsy usually associated with a learning or physical disability. We also have provision in our constitution to admit people without epilepsy if we believe our service meet their needs.

Objects

TO SUPPORT, CARE FOR AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH EPILEPSY AND ASSOCIATED LEARNING AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUITABLE ACCOMMODATION, TAILORED ASSISTANCE, SKILLS TRAINING, AND LEISURE AND SPORTS ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 13% to £9.9m, resulting in a net income of £340k compared to a previous deficit. The charity reports adequate cashflow with a balance of £2.4m and free reserves of £2,359k, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations and continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05822835

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Meath Epilepsy Charity (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.

• CALINESCU, Mihail — director, appointed 17/07/2024not on trustee list
• GIBBON, Edward Anthony Acton, Doctor — director, appointed 17/07/2024not on trustee list
• WILSON, Sally Elizabeth — director, appointed 18/01/2023not on trustee list
• THURSTON, Karen — director, appointed 01/01/2022not on trustee list
• ALDER, Chris — director, appointed 01/01/2022not on trustee list
• FENTON, Nick — director, appointed 01/01/2022not on trustee list
• PERNELET, Helen — director, appointed 01/01/2022not on trustee list
• HEALY, Graham John — director, appointed 16/01/2019not on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: The Meath Trustee Company Limited — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/10/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Meath Trustee Company Limited

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 EPILEPSY SOCIETY.

• EPILEPSY SOCIETY income £20.7m
• EPILEPSY OUTLOOK income £92k
• BRITISH EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION income £5.3m
• ELHT&ME income £993k
• FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.1m
• PEEPS income £270k

Side by side with its peers

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