St Albans Mencap Society

Registered charity 210073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ALBANS AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, ST ALBANS MENCAP, ST. ALBANS SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Firstly to campaign to ensure that learning disabled individuals of all ages receive apropriate services from statutory authorities. Secondly to support, advise and provide services to learning disabled individuals and their carers.

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.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE ST. ALBANS AND DISTRICT

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: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £80,006, supported by a significant rise in donations and legacies to £82,430. However, the charity reports net current liabilities of £8,996, indicating that short-term debts exceed current assets, although the trustees confirm the ability to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05295753 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Albans Mencap (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.

• COLLOCOTT, Brett Gavin — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
• KEEN, David Andrew — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
• SEYMOUR, Peter James — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
• LATHAM, Nick — secretary, appointed 12/11/2025

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: St Albans Mencap Limited — Deregistered, 1 registered location.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Keenchair
• Andrew Howat
• Annemari Merilainen-Otteridge
• Audrey Phiri
• Brett Collocott
• Desmond Phiri
• Ernestina Coast
• Michael Arnott
• NICK LATHAM
• Nicola Halloran
• Peter Seymour
• Zaichen Mallace-Lu · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST ALBANS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• ST ALBANS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• St Albans Education Group income £33.1m
• HASTINGS AND BEXHILL MENCAP SOCIETY income £1.7m
• ST ALBANS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £324k
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k
• ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY income £247.3m

Side by side with its peers

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