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Registered charity · London

British Deaf Association

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training, Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.bda.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Deaf Association
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.5m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£744k
  • 2021£1.3m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE DEAF PEOPLE AND TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Grants received

36 grants · £4,960,787 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002026-01-21
  • City Bridge Trust £49,1082025-03-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £217,8822024-11-29
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £126,0502024-07-24
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust £111,6482024-03-16
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.

8 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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 8Education/training 8Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 9Health and social care 3Professional services 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£2.5m 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.

10.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.9 in 2021

24 from 50 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.
16%
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
1031687
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16/12/1993 AS AMENDED 16/7/1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 17/4/1999, 25/9/1999, 29/9/2001, 11/10/2003, 27/1/2007 AS AMENDED 3/11/12 AND 3/12/2013 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 APR 2018 as amended on 30 Apr 2022 as amended on 30 Apr 2022 as amended on 22 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 02881497 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3835 5125 · finance@bda.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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