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THE MEDICALERT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 233705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDICALERT · also registered in Scotland as SC044510 (OSCR)

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Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2023

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £47,071 for the year ended 31 December 2023, a reversal from the previous year's surplus, principally due to increased spending on interim senior management and operational strategy development. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,453,287, which the trustees consider equivalent to outstanding property lease costs plus 12 months of other operating costs less deferred income. The trustees identified sustainability in membership and product income as the key long-term risk to the charity's viability.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: outstanding property lease commitments, plus 6 to 9 months of other operating costs less deferred membership income (held: £1.5m)
“The Trustees agreed that the level of free reserves should be at a level equivalent to the outstanding property lease commitments, plus 6 to 9 months of other operating costs less deferred membership income.”
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MedicAlert UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£1.1m
Employees
13

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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Trustees

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.3m£1.5m
31/12/2023£1.4m£1.5m
31/12/2022£1.4m£1.2m
31/12/2021£1.3m£1.1m
31/12/2020£1.5m£1.1m

Common questions

Is THE MEDICALERT FOUNDATION financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £47,071 for the year ended 31 December 2023, a reversal from the previous year's surplus, principally due to increased spending on interim senior management and operational strategy development. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,453,287, which the trustees consider equivalent to outstanding property lease costs plus 12 months of other operating costs less deferred income. The trustees identified sustainability in membership and product income as the key long-term risk to the charity's viability. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by MHA.