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Registered charity · London

Multiple Sclerosis Society

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £30m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.mssociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£30m£33m
  • 2023£28m£30m
  • 2022£27m£28m
Earlier years
  • 2021£29m£25m
  • 2020£20m£23m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO SUPPORT AND RELIEVE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.2) TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TO ATTAIN THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY BY IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLIED CONDITIONS AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS.

Grants received

95 grants · £3,485,220 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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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.

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.4y
average years in governance
11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15General Charitable Purposes 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Amateur Sport 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 13Education 4Business services 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£29.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.1 in 2020

296 from 296 in 2020
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
1139257
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/11/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10/09/2011 as amended on 05 Dec 2020 as amended on 07 Dec 2022 as amended on 11 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 07451571 · Active
Contact on the register
020 8438 0700 · supportercare@mssociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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