BIPOLAR UK LTD

Registered charity 293340 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIPOLAR UK, M D F, MDF THE BIPOLAR ORGANISATION

We are the national charity dedicated to supporting individuals affected by bipolar. We provide a range of services including information & advice, a network of support groups, eCommunity, workplace training & telephone & email peer support. We also work in partnership with research organisations and campaign for new developments to tackle key issues.

Objects

TO SUPPORT ALL INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY BIPOLAR DISORDER AND ASSOCIATED ILLNESSES IN ANY WAY WHICH IS CHARITABLE IN LAW.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a strong financial year with income of £1,556,088, though it reported a net expenditure of £20,210. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £793,250, which is below the stated policy target of £871,600 to £1,307,400. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01955570

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bipolar UK (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.

• WILSON, Jody — director, appointed 27/09/2025on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Chennel Delcina — director, appointed 27/09/2025on trustee list
• JAMES, Ann — director, appointed 28/06/2025on trustee list
• SINCLAIR, Howard Andrew — director, appointed 28/06/2025on trustee list
• GILBERT, Steven John — director, appointed 17/01/2025on trustee list
• SHARMA, Aditya, Dr — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Edmund — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• WHITLAM, Daniel James — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• CONSTANDINOS, Louis — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• BARNETT-WELCH, Melissa Elizabeth Vokes — director, appointed 05/10/2019on trustee list
• PRINT, Robert Stephen — director, appointed 15/09/2018on trustee list
• PAISNER, Guy David — director, appointed 15/09/2018on trustee list
• ALPHANDARY, Alice Louise Filkin — director, appointed 15/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Louise Filkin Alphandary
• Ann James
• Chennel Delcina Lawrence
• Daniel Whitlam
• Dr Aditya Sharma
• Edmund Butcher
• Guy David Paisner
• Howard Sinclair
• Jody Tanis Rudd Wilson
• Louis Constandinos
• Melissa Elizabeth Vokes Barnett-Welch
• Robert Stephen Print
• Steven John Gilbert

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

Operates in: 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 BECOME CHARITY.

• BECOME CHARITY income £2.0m
• DEPAUL UK income £25.4m
• THE BPR TRUST income £240k
• BRITISH THYROID FOUNDATION income £305k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF VULVAL DISEASES income £62k
• JULIAN SUPPORT LIMITED income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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