BROMLEY & LEWISHAM MENCAP

Registered charity 800685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROMLEY MENCAP

Bromley Mencap seeks to promote, in partnership with those concerned, the well-being and development of people with a disability of all ages in all areas of their lives; and to support their families in supporting them.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION, LEADING TO INDEPENDENT LIVING OPPORTUNITIES/IMPROVED LIFE CHANCES AND BY CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION THROUGH CAMPAIGNING, LOBBYING AND PROMOTING USER PRESENTATION.

Area of benefit: BROMLEY LB

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £257,041 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £2,450,913. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £979,697, which exceeded the stated policy target of £706,881. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02179385
• Trading subsidiary: BROMLEY MENCAP ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02914837

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.

• MANDLEY, Isabella Ann — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• CHRISTIAN, John Paul — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• CHUKWU-NSOFOR, Maria — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• FORD, Hannah-Louise — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• NELSON, Claire Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• HEAVEY, Patrick Joseph — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• HILDERLY, Adrian Patrick John — director, appointed 13/11/2023on trustee list
• POWNALL, Jonathan Nigel — director, appointed 07/11/2022on trustee list
• GOSTT, Geoffrey Colin — director, appointed 17/07/2017on trustee list
• AUSTYN JONES, Branwen Helen Rebecca — director, appointed 17/04/2000not on trustee list
• LUFF, Colin Charles — secretary, appointed 04/07/2019

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Bromley Mencap — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 22/02/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Hilderlychair
• BRANWEN AUSTYN - JONES
• Claire Elizabeth Nelson
• GEOFFREY COLIN GOSTT
• Hannah-Louise Ford
• Isabelle Ann Mandley
• John Christian
• Jonathan Pownall · trustee of 2 other charities
• Maria Chukwu-Nsofor
• Patrick Heavey · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bromley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEWISHAM MENCAP.

• LEWISHAM MENCAP income £64k
• CHORLEY AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY income £76k
• MENCAP MON income £210k
• LOCAL MENCAP BARNSLEY income £134k
• HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM MENCAP income £1.2m
• HERTSMERE MENCAP income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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