Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

READING MENCAP 

Reading Mencap is a local charity, which aims to provide help and support for people with a learning disability, and their families, in the Reading area.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 17 years

www.readingmencap.org.uk

office@readingmencap.org.uk

01189662518

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£539£624£-85£33£285£1943.72635
31/03/22£571£520£51£26£370£1573.62920
31/03/21£556£437£119£0£319£1774.93025
31/03/20£539£508£31£9£200£1192.830120
31/03/19£379£403£-23n/an/an/an/an/a72
31/03/18£366£360£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£299£363£-63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£307£344£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£359£395£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£445£201£243£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£121£134£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£123£119£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£78£80£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£92£89£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£120£135£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£154£152£2£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 68%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 7.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Reading,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 26 employees
  • 35 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£371,199
Henry Smith Charity£102,300
Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,250
DCMS£68,872
Heart Of England Community Foundation£29,314
Co-Operative Group£8,180
CAF£6,716
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Reading Mencap
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Reading Mencap - 17/10/22
£3,000 11/11/2022
Core Funding
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Reading Mencap
£50,000 23/05/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Reading Mencap
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reading Mencap
£40,000 11/03/2022
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'Mencap Enables Day Service', providing group care and activities for adults with learning disabilities, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Reading, ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Mencap Enables Health Project
£5,000 18/10/2021
Reading Mencap improves quality of life for people with learning disabilities and their families by tackling inequalities and through a range of holistic services, including our Mencap Enables Day ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£68,872 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£3,789 09/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, with ....more
CAF - Grant to Reading Mencap
£6,716 05/06/2020
3
Grant to Reading Mencap to support the organisation through COVID19
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Reading Mencap
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Reading Mencap to sustain their work to support work addressing Learning Disabilities Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Family Support - Housing
£29,314 11/02/2020
24
Reading Mencap's Family Support Service has a waiting list of 3 months. To help meet demand, the grant would be spent over 2 years on employing a Family Adviser for 16hrs/week to focus on housing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Support Service
£371,199 20/01/2020
48
Reading Mencap (RM) in Berkshire will work in partnership with Alliance for Cohesion and Racial Equality (ACRE) to use the funding to continue their family support work, building on their learning ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Reading Mencap
£8,180 15/11/2019
We want to run a weekly ""Starlights"" performing arts club for 15-20 adults with learning disabilities.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reading Mencap
£62,300 12/06/2019
36
towards three years' salary of a Family Adviser at a project providing information, advice and advocacy for people with learning disabilities and their families in Berkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Replacement fascias, soffits and gutters
£10,000 20/04/2018
12
The project will replace the deteriorated fascias, soffits and gutters on the charity's premises, helping maintain the building that is used six days per week by over 100 children and adults with ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Reading Mencap
£4,567 29/11/2017
Help fund a range of group physical, educational and leisure activities chosen by adults with LD to improve their health and well-being.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 10/05/2017
Reading Mencap - Core Costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Reading Mencap
£7,746 16/12/2015
supporting people with learning disabilities and their families in the Reading area. The grant will fund external consultancy support to review and update its policies and procedures, a new website ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Support Project
£293,511 11/09/2014
60
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Reading Mencap
£21,700 20/10/2011
the salary costs of the Family Support Worker as well as mileage and office costs and the costs of supervision
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-61
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/03/2007, number: 1118287
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/10/2006, number: 05976118
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

21 ALEXANDRA ROAD
READING
RG1 5PE

Objectives

(A THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS(B) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS “LEARNING DISABILITY” SHALL MEAN ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWSOEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MILD,MODERATE OR SEVERE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. READING

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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