THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 311877 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PIERS, ST PIERS LINGFIELD, ST PIERS LINGFIELD CHARITY, THE LINGFIELD HOSPITAL SCHOOL, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY, YOUNG EPILEPSY

Established in 1897 the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy is a national charity that is the UK's major provider of services to children and young people with epilepsy and associated learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The Trading Name, Young Epilepsy, launched in Nov 2011, reflects our ambition to reach as many of the 112,700 young people with epilepsy, as possible.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF A SPECIAL SCHOOL WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE EDUCATION ACTS AND A COLLEGE FOR FURTHER EDUCATION TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SUPPORTING THEM TO BETTER REACH THEIR POTENTIAL; (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE WIDER PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONALS REGARDING EPILEPSY, IN PARTICULAR HEALTH AND EDUCATION BODIES AND AGENCIES, ABOUT THE PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS EXPERIENCED BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITH EPILEPSY, WITH A FOCUS ON THE CAUSES, ADVANCING BETTER TREATMENT AND THE ALLEVIATION OF IMPACT THEREOF THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH, ADVOCACY, AWARENESS RAISING AND THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND TRAINING; AND(3) THE RELIEF OF NEED OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR CAREGIVERS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING OR ARE AFFECTED BY EPILEPSY AND ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF EDUCATION, CARE AND SUPPORT, INCLUDING THROUGH BRINGING YOUNG PEOPLE TOGETHER TO CREATE A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LINGFIELD.

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: Tandridge, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £0.3m for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by increased fees from local authorities and growth in fundraising income. Free reserves stood at £5.0m, a significant increase from £0.1m the previous year, largely due to proceeds from a land sale, though the trustees note that excluding these proceeds, free reserves would be £0.7m, which aligns with their reserves policy. The charity relies substantially on local authority contracts for its income and has confirmed it has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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).

• Young Epilepsy | Zac’s Great Big Challenge 2026 justgiving.com · 23/08/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00756798
• Trading subsidiary: ST PIERS (SERVICES) LIMITED Companies House 04131530 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Young Epilepsy (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Devlin — CEO (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund — “With support from the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund and Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Young Epilepsy’s personalised su…” (source page)
• Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust — “With support from the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund and Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Young Epilepsy’s personalised su…” (source page)
• George E Neville Foundation — “With the support of the George E Neville Foundation, research partners and our donors, our health and research programmes are dedicated to i…” (source page)
• The Millie Community — “With the support from organisations like The Millie Community, Ottolenghi, Veronica Beard and more, Hear Her Voice is Young Epilepsy’s award…” (source page)
• Ottolenghi — “With the support from organisations like The Millie Community, Ottolenghi, Veronica Beard and more, Hear Her Voice is Young Epilepsy’s award…” (source page)
• Veronica Beard — “With the support from organisations like The Millie Community, Ottolenghi, Veronica Beard and more, Hear Her Voice is Young Epilepsy’s award…” (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.

• RUETIMANN, Markus Hardy — director, appointed 08/11/2024not on trustee list
• RODRIGUES, Maria — director, appointed 10/05/2024not on trustee list
• TAILOR, Ash — director, appointed 21/03/2024not on trustee list
• HADLEY, Thomas Fovargue — director, appointed 02/10/2023not on trustee list
• PIERPOINT, David Julian — director, appointed 02/10/2023not on trustee list
• BALI, Amit, Dr — director, appointed 09/11/2020not on trustee list
• NEVILLE, Simon Andrew — director, appointed 01/10/2020not on trustee list
• JONES, Tamsin Carole — director, appointed 01/10/2020not on trustee list
• AL-KHALILI, Nazar — secretary, appointed 27/09/2018

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 27/01/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (30,103 followers) · instagram (17K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY

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

Operates in: 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 HOPE for Epilepsy.

• HOPE for Epilepsy income £62k
• EPILEPSY SOCIETY income £20.7m
• NATIONAL YOUTH FOLK TROUPE OF ENGLAND income £33k
• YOUNG PERSONS CENTRE income £525k
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN income £4.0m
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S HEALTH income £255k

Side by side with its peers

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