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Registered charity · Northampton

Motor Neurone Disease Association

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £41m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.mndassociation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£41m£34m
  • 2023£38m£27m
  • 2022£30m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2021£29m£18m
  • 2020£20m£16m
Charitable objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE, OR WHO ARE SUSPECTED OF BEING, AFFECTED BY MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE AND ITS ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS ("THE BENEFICIARIES") BY SEEKING TO ENSURE THAT SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS RECEIVE SUCH HELP AND ASSISTANCE AS IS CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THEIR NEED.(B) TO COMMISSION, UNDERTAKE, PROMOTE, MONITOR AND MANAGE RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE AND ITS ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS AND CAUSES AND WORK TOWARDS THEIR PREVENTION AND CURE AND TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.5y median 1.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Religious Activities 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 11Finance 7Arts and leisure 4

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£40.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

18.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 9.8 in 2020

238 from 178 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
294354
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 APRIL 1986 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 15/7/1989, 16/9/1995, 20/9/1997, 12/9/1998, 18/9/1999, 23/9/2000, 15/9/2001, 3/10/2003 & 30/9/2008. as amended on 08 Jul 2017 as amended on 23 Mar 2021 as amended on 01 Jul 2021 as amended on 26 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 02007023 · Active
Contact on the register
01604 250505 · enquiries@mndassociation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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