MENINGITIS NOW

Registered charity 803016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6817087 · Wikipedia · also known as MENINGITIS TRUST, THE MENINGITIS TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC037790 (OSCR)

Meningitis Now is a charity formed in 2013 by the merger of Meningitis UK & Meningitis Trust, founders of the meningitis movement in the UK in the mid 1980s. We exist to save lives & rebuild futures through research, awareness & support.Our vision is a future where no one in the UK loses their life to meningitis & everyone affected gets the support they need to rebuild their lives.

Objects

A. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM MENINGITIS (WHICH IN THESE OBJECTS MEANS MENINGITIS IN ALL FORMS AND INCLUDES ALL AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS) OR SEPTICAEMIA OR WHO ARE DISABLED AS A RESULT OF MENINGITIS OR SEPTICAEMIA.B. TO UNDERTAKE AND FUND RESEARCH INTO ALL STRAINS OF MENINGITIS WHETHER VIRAL OR BACTERIAL OR SEPTICAEMIA AND TO PUBLISH, ASSIST WITH, AND/OR FUND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.C. TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF MENINGITIS AS A SERIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEM.D. TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WHO SUFFER MENINGITIS OR SEPTICAEMIA AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILIES, GUARDIANS OR PARTNERS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £397k for the year, which was absorbed by reserves, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £956k. Per the trustees' report, the charity's free reserves of £936k are within the target range set by its reserves policy, and the trustees are confident the charity remains a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• 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 02469130
• Trading subsidiary: MENINGITIS TRUST TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02567713

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Meningitis Now (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.

• WEEKS, Randy William Packer — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
• BYRNE, Holly Lauren — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
• PHILIPSBORN, Christopher Edwin — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Nikki — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
• SUTCLIFFE, Stephen Alan — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
• THOMAS, Emma Nicole — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• KROLL, John Simon, Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2019on trustee list
• MARSH, Julie Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/10/2019on trustee list
• SUTHERLAND, James Douglas — director, appointed 12/10/2017on trustee list
• ADLINGTON, Roderick Piers — director, appointed 12/10/2017on trustee list
• MARSH, Hannah — director, appointed 12/10/2017on 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 ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 37.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Edwin Philipsborn
• Emma Thomas
• Hannah Marsh
• Holly lauren Byrne
• James Sutherland
• Julie Elizabeth Marsh
• Nikki Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor John Simon Kroll
• RODERICK ADLINGTON
• Randy William Packer Weeks · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephen Alan Sutcliffe

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

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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 SPENCER DAYMAN MENINGITIS RESEARCH.

• SPENCER DAYMAN MENINGITIS RESEARCH income £182k
• MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• MYOSITIS UK income £140k
• CYSTINOSIS FOUNDATION OF THE UK income £34k
• BREAST CANCER NOW income £59.3m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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