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Registered charity · Bristol

Meningitis Research Foundation

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.meningitis.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Meningitis Research Foundation
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£3.0m
  • 2024£3.0m£2.5m
  • 2023£3.6m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£2.0m
  • 2021£3.4m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ALL FORMS OF MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS;(B) TO PROMOTE THE DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED BY SUCH RESEARCH;(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CAUSES, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS;(D) TO HELP RELIEVE DISTRESS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES CAUSED BY DEATH AND DAMAGE THROUGH MENINGITIS AND ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS.

Grants received

7 grants · £358,917 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.5y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13Disability 12Education/training 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12Professional services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.6m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.0 in 2021

34 from 26 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1091105
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 2002 as amended on 06 Oct 2016 as amended on 25 Mar 2021
Companies House
Company number 04367866 · Active
Contact on the register
03334056262 · CAROLC@MENINGITIS.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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