MENINGITIS NOW

Registered charity 803016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 37.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

• MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• THE MIGRAINE TRUST income £1.0m
• BREAST CANCER NOW income £59.3m
• LIVE MUSIC NOW LIMITED income £1.4m
• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• Encephalitis International income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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