Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Spending declining: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 1

MEDICAL ENGINEERING RESOURCE UNIT

The development and/or provision of innovative aids for the relief of children and young people with disabilities

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity uses a corporate trustee

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile recently

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	£487	£520	£-33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22	£646	£617	£29	£31	£55	£6	0.1	9	9
31/03/21	£600	£592	£8	£25	£25	£1	0	8	12
31/03/20	£601	£630	£-28	£83	£17	£13	0.2	8	21
31/03/19	£566	£793	£-227	£97	£46	£43	0.7	8	35
31/03/18	£731	£775	£-44	£154	£273	£243	3.8	8	0
31/03/17	£744	£710	£34	£151	£317	£185	3.1	7	0
31/03/16	£647	£548	£99	£5	£283	£193	4.2	6	0
31/03/15	£736	£552	£183	£34	£184	£183	4	4	0
31/03/14	£562	£542	£20	£542	£0	£-91	-2	6	0
31/03/13	£583	£731	£-148	£107	£-19	£-19	-0.3	9	0
31/03/12	£409	£573	£-164	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£526	£583	£-57	£64	£294	£284	5.8	10	0
31/03/10	£514	£507	£7	£39	£343	£298	7.1	10	0
31/03/09	£612	£485	£128	£39	£329	£301	7.4	9	0
31/03/08	£476	£475	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£420	£430	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£410	£404	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£447	£446	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£347	£369	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 49 years

www.meru.org.uk

info@meru.org.uk

01372841105

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability

GiG Classification

Social youth organisations

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Throughout London, West Sussex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£11,207	31/10/2021	Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2021
The Berkeley Foundation - Covid-19 match funding grant
£5,000	20/04/2021	Unrestricted donation to a charity match funding the amount raised by Berkeley Group staff
Community Foundation for Surrey - Bugzi Loan Scheme
£9,900	16/04/2021 5	To provide two Bugzi mobility wheelchairs for two young children with disabilities in Surrey enabling them to move independently for the first time.
The Berkeley Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 grant to help mitigate loss of fundraising income
£10,000	28/04/2020	One-off unrestricted, emergency grant to support the Foundation's Designated Charities during the Covid-19 crisis. COVID19 related grant.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	27/06/2018	Volunteer Design Panel for equipment solutions for children with disabilities
National Lottery Community Fund - Specialist tools for making bespoke equipment for disabled children
£10,000	07/02/2018 12	The project will support the independence, safety and social inclusion of children with disabilities by purchasing new specialist equipment to engineer and produce bespoke equipment and products.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to MERU
£29,474	10/05/2017 36	This project uses Bugzi powered wheelchairs to increase movement and mobility, independence, and enable greater participation and self-expression of 180 disabled children over 3 years.
National Lottery Community Fund - MERU Custom-made Equipment Service
£268,487	18/12/2014 36	Not Available

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How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

Queen Elizabeth's Foundation For Disabled People

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/08/1975, number: 269804
Registered at Companies House on 28/05/1975, number: 01214125

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION FOR
DISABLED PEOPLE
LEATHERHEAD COURT
WOODLANDS ROAD
LEATHERHEAD
KT22 0BN

Objectives

THE DEVELOPMENT AND OR PROVISION OF INNOVATIVE AIDS FOR THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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