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Registered charity · Leeds

British Epilepsy Association

British Epilepsy Association is a registered charity (number 234343) based in Leeds, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by Jane Elizabeth Riley since 2014. Latest income £5.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Epilepsy Action (Charity Commission)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.3m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.epilepsy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Epilepsy Association
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.3m£4.3m
  • 2024£3.6m£4.3m
  • 2023£2.8m£4.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.3m£3.5m
  • 2021£3.3m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(I) TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY OR THOSE WITH AN INTEREST IN THE CONDITION(II) TO RAISE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONDITIONAND(III) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO EPILEPSY

Grants received

40 grants · £948,755 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

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

4.2y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11Education/training 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11

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 13Education 8Other services 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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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£3.6m 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.3 in 2020

76 from 70 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
234343
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 MARCH 1964 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 3 MAY 1990, 23 JUNE 1994, 19 JUNE 1997, 17 JUNE 2006 AND 14 JUNE 2008. as amended on 29 Jun 2021 as amended on 09 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 00797997 · Active
Contact on the register
01132108800 · epilepsy@epilepsy.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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