PARKINSON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 258197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7138534 · Wikipedia · also known as PARKINSON'S UK, PDS · also registered in Scotland as SC037554 (OSCR)

Parkinson's UK drives better care, treatments and quality of life. Together we can bring forward the day when no one fears Parkinson's.

Objects

2.1 TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR PEOPLE WITH THE CONDITION KNOWN AS PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND ALLIED CONDITIONS (REFERRED TO TOGETHER IN THESE ARTICLES AS PARKINSON’S) AND TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS, FRIENDS AND CARERS AND OTHER PERSONS AFFECTED BY PARKINSON’S; 2.2 TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF PARKINSON’S AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; 2.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS ON ISSUES RELATING TO PARKINSON’S; AND 2.4 TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S AND/OR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS, FRIENDS AND CARERS AND OTHER PERSONS AFFECTED BY PARKINSON’S. IN EACH CASE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 December 2025 was £51.6m, a growth of 6% compared to the previous year. Total expenditure was £52.7m, resulting in a net expenditure before investment gains of £1.1m. The charity reports liquid reserves of £24.7m at year-end, which is within its stated risk-based reserves target range of £18.4m to £25.7m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Who’s Funding: Postcode Lottery, Parkinson’s UK, Selco and more civilsociety.co.uk · 07/04/2026
• Serenata Female Voices to perform at Trinity College, Cambridge in aid of Parkinson’s UK cambridgeindependent.co.uk · 17/12/2025
• Who’s Funding: Parkinson’s UK, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and more civilsociety.co.uk · 29/07/2024
• Thanet community news: Parkinson’s UK walk, Margate Rotary, litter angels, Kent community foundation and health trust award theisleofthanetnews.com · 12/03/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00948776

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Parkinson’s UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Garden Scheme — “To date, the National Garden Scheme has donated over £2.5 million to help fund Parkinson's nurses across the UK, making it our largest corpo…” (source page)
• The Access Group — “From a glamorous gala ball to 47 staff members skydiving, The Access Group have blown us away with their fundraising. Their fantastic effort…” (source page)
• Smart Outdoor — “In 2022, a unique partnership was born that resulted in a donation of digital outdoor advertising. Mark has also rallied industry contacts t…” (source page)

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.

• GANDHI, Sonia, Professor — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• SHIPTON, Janet Margaret — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• HARDING, Pamela Jane — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• MILLER, Peter Edwin — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• PIERPOINT, Graham Edward — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• GARLAND, Ian Richard — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• KULKARNI, Sangita Sachin, Dr — director, appointed 05/02/2025on trustee list
• PLATTS, Kathryn Elizabeth, Dr — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
• CARSON, Brian — director, appointed 09/02/2023on trustee list
• GREEN, Katrina — director, appointed 27/04/2020on trustee list
• EVANS, Elaine Sylvia — director, appointed 27/03/2020on trustee list
• BURSTON, Helen Jane — director, appointed 12/10/2019on trustee list
• SHAUGHNESSY, Gary Paul John — director, appointed 08/08/2018on trustee list
• NEVILLE, Judeth — secretary, appointed 05/02/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kristina Jane Murrin CBEchair
• Brian Carson
• Dr Sangita Kulkarni
• Elaine Evans
• Graham Edward Pierpoint
• Helen Jane Burston
• Ian Garland
• Janet Margaret Shipton
• Kathryn Elizabeth Platts
• Katrina Green
• Pamela Jane Harding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Edwin Miller
• Professor Sonia Gandhi

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 PARKINSON'S CARE AND SUPPORT UK.

• PARKINSON'S CARE AND SUPPORT UK income £495k
• Parkinson's Europe income £592k
• PARKINSON'S AFRICA income £63k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• EPILEPSY SOCIETY income £20.7m
• PANCREATIC CANCER UK income £14.5m

Side by side with its peers

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