GREENWICH MENCAP

Registered charity 802103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENWICH SOCIETY FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED (GREENWICH MENCAP)

Greenwich Mencap works with and for people with a learning disability and their families. Our Children's services are: support with challenging behaviour, activity sessions (short breaks) and support surrounding the transition to adulthood. Our Adult services are: information, advice, advocacy, 1-1 support, travel training, job coaching, day services including handicrafts, gardening & painting.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £16,133 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees report that total free unrestricted reserves totalled £354,247, with accessible free reserves of £338,761, which is above the stated policy target of one month’s expenditure (£60,000). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported 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 Simpson Wreford LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02408836

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.

• BALESTRINI, Alonso — director, appointed 22/07/2025on trustee list
• HUTTON, Sharon Leigh — director, appointed 06/12/2024on trustee list
• SMYTH, Laura — director, appointed 25/11/2023on trustee list
• SMYTH, Timothy Christopher — director, appointed 25/11/2023not on trustee list
• LOOKER, Teresa Amanda — director, appointed 19/03/2021not on trustee list
• SELLARS, Jonathan — director, appointed 30/03/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Greenwich Mencap — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 21/06/2017.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~19.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alonso Balestrini
• Clare Louise Quinn-Waters
• Kellen Bennett
• Laura Smyth
• Sharon Hutton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Symth

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

Operates in: Greenwich

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).