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Registered charity · Bracknell

Debra

Debra is a registered charity (number 1084958) based in Bracknell, governed by 13 trustees. Latest income £18m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Douglas Macdonald, Kevin Patrick Kealy.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.debra.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Debra
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£18m
  • 2024£18m£19m
  • 2023£18m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£16m
  • 2021£13m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC INTO THE CAUSE, NATURE, TREATMENT AND CURE OF EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA AND OTHER RELATED MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND2) TO RELIEVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE SAID CONDITION BY THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WELFARE AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE.

Grants received

12 grants · £495,015 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £314,526 (4 grants)
  • Coop Foundation · £72,843
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £36,422
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £36,422
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.3y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Other Charitable Purposes 10Education/training 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 10Property 2Tech and media 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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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£18.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.6 in 2020

362 from 376 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
1084958
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/12/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/05/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/2014 as amended on 09 Apr 2022 as amended on 18 Jul 2022
Companies House
Company number 04118259 · Active
Contact on the register
01344771961 · debra@debra.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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