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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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.

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 THE FOUR SEASONS TRUST LIMITED.

• THE FOUR SEASONS TRUST LIMITED income £425k
• EPILEPSY SOCIETY income £20.7m
• THE ALISON HILLMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £518k
• THE ANNE AND JOHN WALTERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £334k
• THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY CHARITABLE TRUST income £28.2m
• BRITISH EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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