THE MYALGIC ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATION LIMITED

1. THE MYALGIC ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATION LIMITED 2007-05-16 → present
2. THE MYALGIC ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATION 2001-08-13 → 2007-05-16
3. MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ASSOCIATION 1989-03-16 → 2001-08-13

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Astral Accountancy Services Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Significant events

• “More than 400,000 people in the UK live with ME/CFS and around 1,800,000 with Long Covid which represents a real health crisis.”
• “We fund medical research including the UK ME/CFS Biobank, so that we can better understand what causes and perpetuates this disease, and in the hope that an effective treatment can be found.”
• “The MEA Ramsay Research Fund funds biomedical research into cause and management of ME/CFS. This includes all the basic running costs for the ME/CFS Biobank at the Royal Free Hospital in London which collects blood samples and anonymised clinical data from people with ME/CFS, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and healthy controls.”
• “The ME Association also works with the Manchester Brain Bank on post-mortem research.”
• “In terms of funding, the total cost of all the research we are currently funding (as of close 2024), or are considering funding in 2025, amounts to well over £500,000.”
• “We are running a £100,000 one year pilot project in health and social care. Its primary aim is to engage with healthcare clinicians and decision-makers to implement the NICE Guideline in their services.”
• “Katharine Leat was appointed to manage ME Connect in January 2024.”
• “New phone line service provider 'Call Handling' began in February 2025”
• “An online community forum was launched in 2025.”
• “We created a new Special Projects Manager position to develop new strategically focussed projects.”
• “We have expanded the Communications team with the appointment of two new members of staff to manage our digital platforms (with over 70,000 social media followers reaching over 3.5m people and a million website users, we intend to expand our activity across other platforms; use more video content; become even more accessible; and make more platform specific content to reach more people).”
• “Following 21 years at the helm, Chairman Neil Riley stepped down recently.”
• “In 2025, we implemented a fully supported Customer Relationship Management (CRM Customer Relationship Management) software system.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +9.9%

  £1,017,845 → £1,118,304

• Cash

  +1.1%

  £1,195,084 → £1,207,938

• Net assets

  +7%

  £3,608,810 → £3,861,870

• Employees

  +15.4%

  13 → 15

• Wages

  +6.8%

  £322,460 → £344,284

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers