Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Pension deficit: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY 

Provide support and advice services for people with a learning disabilty including care and support, advocacy, housing, leisure and employment. We work to improve services, challenge prejudice and directly support people to live their lives as they choose. We offer support through our website, printed resources and helpline. Our regional advisers offer direct support by phone, email and in person.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • 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:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There is a pension deficit of £2,374,000
Established: 60 years
(68 years as a company)

www.mencap.org.uk

helpline@mencap.org.uk

020 7454 0454

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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£216,112£221,707£-5,595£7,284£40,437£27,8101.57,5341,684
31/03/22£239,014£233,949£5,065£6,887£112,497£71,9503.78,009808
31/03/21£238,249£225,307£12,942£6,051£108,016£69,0783.78,408864
31/03/20£220,240£212,820£7,420£6,549£96,819£63,9913.68,5931,981
31/03/19£209,323£208,847£476£6,639£82,457£54,0723.18,6422,034
31/03/18£203,748£197,206£6,542£6,941£83,234£54,7183.38,5300
31/03/17£191,941£188,527£3,414£4,485£68,457£42,0672.78,1810
31/03/16£191,328£183,899£7,429£4,079£65,577£38,8272.58,2600
31/03/15£191,651£187,490£4,161£4,807£49,560£23,3011.55,8020
31/03/14£201,195£192,512£8,683£5,179£49,761£22,1851.46,0820
31/03/13£196,584£198,841£-2,257£6,389£42,196£15,76115,9730
31/03/12£200,597£190,031£10,566£7,321£52,092£24,4741.55,7620
31/03/11£193,554£196,230£-2,676£5,811£48,764£27,0831.75,6570
31/03/10£194,199£188,632£5,567£4,892£40,972£15,72815,5800
31/03/09£189,116£186,045£3,071£6,157£50,497£40,3812.65,4020
31/03/08£183,456£176,901£6,555£5,660£29,191£18,7271.35,3800
31/03/07£177,840£172,130£5,710£7,261£22,801£10,9360.85,7920
31/03/06£164,039£164,534£-495£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£157,811£153,390£4,421£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£140,901£141,000£-99£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 69%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 7,534 employees
  • 1,684 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
Pears Foundation£1,275,000
Department of Health£860,392
Sport England£250,000
DCMS£144,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
CareTech foundation - Match Funding Grant
£350 28/10/2022
Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mencap’s Family Forestry School
£9,983 11/10/2022
Royal Mencap Society on Anglesey will deliver a family forest school. Children with additional learning needs will explore and connect with the outdoors.£9983 will fund project costs including ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Me Time' Our Radio project
£7,095 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a community radio station run by people with a learning disability with a focus of sharing learning disability and community inspired content. The project aims to ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£500 16/09/2022
As requested by the donor towards Mencap's work through donation to the charity's Christmas concert.
Co-Op Foundation - Local Youth Action
£40,000 15/06/2022
Mencap will support young people to deliver three Community Impact Projects aimed at increasing community participation for young people with learning disabilities and providing meaningful, lasting ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - MENCAP
£68,732 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Mencap Society
£99,500 02/03/2022
Citizen Curators: Preserving the heritage of Mencap Local groups across Wales : OM-20-03861
Department of Health - Mencap
£78,889 10/02/2022
We are looking for bids that provide support in the following ways:Supporting the mental health needs of children, young people and adults with learning disability and autistic individuals who may ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,111 01/02/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£175,000 03/12/2021
Pears DCMS Volunteering Futures Fund
DCMS - Loneliness Engagement Fund - Mencap
£44,500 01/04/2021
Conduct research into the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the pandemic in terms of their mental health and their perceptions of loneliness to inform their 2022 mental health ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£100,000 01/03/2021
Community led capacity building in two local Mencap clubs
Cloudesley - Grant to Mencap Islington
£10,000 23/02/2021
Islington Me Time - Sensory Wild Garden
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Mencap Cymru
£6,300 10/11/2020
#15 Llanfyllin ni - our Llanfyllin
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£1,000,000 29/10/2020
17
DCMS Community Match Challenge grant
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£100,000 05/10/2020
"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 Tackling Inequalities Fund
£250,000 20/07/2020
3
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund. This project is a Sport participation and ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Mencap Learning Disability Helpline
£3,422 22/05/2020
12
Towards operating Royal Mencap's telephone 'Helpline' for Suffolk families for a year.
Department of Health - Covid Funding
£310,362 22/05/2020
Support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs
National Lottery Community Fund - Early Intervention at Home
£10,000 21/05/2020
10
Royal Mencap Society is using a £10000 grant to develop and distribute Early Intervention resource packs to help families of young children with a significant developmental delay a learning ....more
Department of Health - MENCAP
£471,141 17/04/2020
The grant funding provided a period of support for charities providing vital services to ensure they could meet increased demand as a result of COVID-19, while continuing their day-to-day activities ....more
Harpur Trust - Royal Mencap Society
£16,843 10/03/2020
24
Round the World Challenge Bedford
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Royal Mencap Society
£80,000 05/12/2019
Development of supported living accommodation for adults with learning disabilities in Strabane, Northern Ireland
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mencap
£4,229 15/11/2019
We want to create a sensory garden at Rockhill to support people with learning disabilities.
Stockport MBC - Grant to The Royal Mencap Society
£10,000 01/11/2019
Increase participation of Stockport residents in the Round the world challenge.
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£200,000 11/04/2019
24
Family support early intervention in Newham
Sport England - Tackling Inactivity
£1,000,000 25/01/2019
48
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity funding programme for a Revenue project titled Tackling Inactivity. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Gig Buddies
£70,000 29/11/2018
"Gig Buddies" will match young people with learning disabilities with volunteers who help them plan and attend nightlife activities together based on mutual interests.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000 23/05/2018
The Round World Challenge
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£44,180 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£16,262 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£16,626 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£26,968 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£12,306 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£100,000 23/11/2017
24
Second cohort Beacon clubs
Sport England - NDSO 2017-20
£16,399 21/08/2017
3
Funding under Sport England's National Programme funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'NDSO 2017-20'. This project is a Adapted Sport project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
Sport England - NDSO 2017-20
£16,399 21/08/2017
2
Funding under Sport England's National Programme funding programme for a Revenue project titled NDSO 2017-20. This project is a Adapted Sport project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£40,390 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£45,227 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£46,900 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£47,183 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£47,663 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Mencap Cymru
£75,406 09/02/2017
36
This project will provide disabled young people with opportunities to sustain friendships independently of their parents. They will have increased confidence, be more independent, and have better ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Mencap Society
£421,000 21/09/2016
Our Social Networks: Capturing the nature of friendship and intimacy for people with learning disabilities
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£210,000 08/10/2015
36
Capacity building for Major Donor Fundraising team
Pears Foundation - Grant to Mencap
£100,000 11/09/2015
24
Two second cohort Beacon hubs
National Lottery Community Fund - Step Up
£370,509 09/02/2015
24
Not Available
Sport England - Inclusive Sport NDSO
£196,790 30/10/2014
Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Inclusive Sport NDSO'. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
Sport England - Get Equipped Disability Bike Development
£7,410 05/02/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get Equipped Disability Bike Development'. This project is a Cycling project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Link Me
£500,000 12/03/2013
48
The 'Link Me' project, in partnership with Volunteer Now, will support older people with a learning disability offering them an increased range of activities including arts, craft, circus skills and ....more
Nesta - AC00304
£120,000 04/03/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to Mencap (OIP) Grant Ref AC00304
Sport England - Inclusive Sport for Mencap Sport and Special Olympics GB
£225,370 24/10/2011
Funding under Sport England's Themed Round 3 funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Inclusive Sport for Mencap Sport and Special Olympics GB'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-71
  • KATHRYN REES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Strategy And Commissioning
  • NEIL HOSKIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Expert By Experience
  • YOGI AMIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/07/1964, number: 222377
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/06/1955, number: 00550457
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FRODSHAM NURSING FUND on 06/08/2019
  • Asset transfer in from THE YORVIK GATEWAY CLUB on 02/10/2019
Main office

Mencap
6 Cyrus Way
Cygnet Park
Hampton
PETERBOROUGH
Cambridg

Objectives

ADVANCING THE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS (THE BENEFICIARIES) BY PROVIDING, PROCURING OR FACILITATING CARE, SERVICES AND FACILITIES AND TO ADVANCE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY.?

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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