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Business Disability Forum

Business Disability Forum is a registered charity (number 1018463) based in London, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Stephen John Ingham since 2023. Latest income £4.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £4.4m (2025)
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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, Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.businessdisabilityforum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Business Disability Forum
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.4m£4.3m
  • 2024£4.0m£3.6m
  • 2023£3.7m£2.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 15% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING AIMED AT INCREASING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: AND2) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING AIMED AT INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY TO GOODS AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

Grants received

1 grant · £148,500 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.

14 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (4)

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 14General Charitable Purposes 14Education/training 13Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Professional services 20Health and social care 17Tech and media 8

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£4.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

7.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.6 in 2021

56 from 31 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.
15%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1018463
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/04/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/11/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26/09/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/01/2013 as amended on 22 Jul 2020
Companies House
Company number 02603700 · Active
Contact on the register
02074033020 · enquiries@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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