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Registered charity · Buckinghamshire

Epilepsy Society

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £21m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.epilepsysociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Epilepsy Society
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£21m£22m
  • 2024£19m£21m
  • 2023£18m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£17m
  • 2021£16m£17m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 64%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROVIDE BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY FOR THE MAINTENANCE, CARE, TREATMENT, EDUCATION, OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING, OCCUPATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY AND, TO THE EXTENT THAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AFTER GIVING PRIORITY TO THE FOREGOING, FOR PEOPLE WITH OTHER PHYSICAL OR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OR HANDICAPS.(B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION, BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR, INCLUDING PLAYING FIELDS, LAWNS, BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES AND ALL NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY AND, TO THE EXTENT THAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AFTER GIVING PRIORITY TO THE FOREGOING, FOR PEOPLE WITH OTHER PHYSICAL OR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OR HANDICAPS.(C) TO PROVIDE BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY BY ANY LAWFUL METHOD AS THE SOCIETY MAY CONSIDER PROPER SUPPORT, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, SUPPORT GROUPS AND BRANCHES AND OTHER PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE CONDITION.(D) TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF EPILEPSY.(E) TO CARRY ON AND EXTEND AND DEVELOP THE CHARITABLE WORK PREVIOUSLY CARRIED ON BY THE UNINCORPORATED SOCIETY KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EPILEPSY (WHICH UNINCORPORATED SOCIETY IS HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “THE UNINCORPORATED SOCIETY”) AT THE CHALFONT CENTRE FOR EPILEPSY AT CHALFONT ST. PETER, GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, SL9 0RJ.

Grants received

8 grants · £55,274 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.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Henry Smith Foundation £33,5002013-03-14
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,4642011-01-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,4642010-01-28
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,3682008-07-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,1582008-01-21
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.

13 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13Education/training 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 14Finance 3Arts and leisure 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£20.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

6.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 17.7 in 2021

368 from 276 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
206186
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/03/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/09/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/09/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/07/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28 MAR 2018 as amended on 17 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 00492761 · Active
Contact on the register
01494 601 300 · company.secretary@epilepsysociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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