ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY

Registered charity 222377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MENCAP, THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS, THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Provide support and advice services for people with a learning disabilty including care and support, advocacy, housing, leisure and employment. We work to improve services, challenge prejudice and directly support people to live their lives as they choose. We offer support through our website, printed resources and helpline. Our regional advisers offer direct support by phone, email and in person.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew to £244.4m in 2024/25, driven by a significant increase in donations and legacies, resulting in a positive net income of £9.2m. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds free reserves of £23.8m, which exceeds its stated policy target range of £16m to £21m, indicating strong financial resilience.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00550457

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 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.

• SATTEE, Dinesh Kumar — director, appointed 01/09/2026not on trustee list
• SODHA, Jitesh Himatlal — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• PEACOCK, Lynne Margaret — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GITSHAM, Nicola Sarah — director, appointed 20/03/2025on trustee list
• GOSSCHALK, Alan — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• HOSKIN, Neil — director, appointed 23/10/2023on trustee list
• MCDERMOTT, Catherine — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• REES, Kathryn — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• POLLOCK, Jacqueline Louise — director, appointed 19/11/2018on trustee list
• EDGE, Lucy Kathryne — director, appointed 19/11/2018on trustee list
• AMIN, Yogendra — director, appointed 18/11/2018not on trustee list
• MAWHINNEY, Mary Lauren — secretary, appointed 17/01/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

43 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £360k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Royal Mencap Society — Registered, 339 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 01/02/2024.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Trustpilot: Mencap scores 1.9/5 from 36 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (112,565 likes) · instagram (31K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Penrith Drive: Requires improvement (05/06/2025) · CQC record
• Royal Mencap Society - Norfolk Domiciliary Care Agency: Requires improvement (20/08/2022) · CQC record
• Ipswich Domiciliary Care Agency: Requires improvement (22/04/2021) · CQC record
• East Fields: Outstanding (09/08/2019) · CQC record
• Montague Street Care Home: Good (15/10/2019) · CQC record
• Cottingham Road: Good (05/03/2018) · CQC record
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domiciliary Care Agency: Good (16/11/2017) · CQC record
• Mencap - Barnsley: Good (31/05/2019) · CQC record
• Southernwood: Good (11/03/2020) · CQC record
• Royal Mencap Society - Lincolnshire Domiciliary Care Agency: Outstanding (02/07/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN GOSSCHALK
• Catherine McDermott
• Dinesh Kumar Sattee
• Jacqueline Louise Pollock
• Jitesh Himatlal Sodha
• Kathryn Rees
• Lucy Kathryne Edge
• Lynne Margaret Peacock
• Neil Hoskin
• Nicola Sarah Gitsham
• Yogi Amin

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 Croydon Mencap.

• Croydon Mencap income £1.2m
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k
• MENCAP IN KIRKLEES income £3.6m
• EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT MENCAP LIMITED income £2.9m
• MENCAP LIVERPOOL income £455k
• MERTON MENCAP income £827k

Side by side with its peers

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