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Registered charity · Bath

Designability Charity Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.designability.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Designability Charity Limited
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£2.4m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.2m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2021£1.9m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, THE DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE THEREBY ACQUIRED AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED (BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY, AGE OR INFIRMITY) BY THE PROVISION OF DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT TO ASSIST IN THEIR MEDICAL TREATMENT OR IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

Grants received

18 grants · £927,046 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

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002025-11-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8722025-09-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,1602025-09-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,1852025-03-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £512,0052024-05-31
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

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 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Education/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 15Construction 2Professional 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£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 13.6 in 2021

29 from 24 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
256335
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 JUN 1968AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 FEB 1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 MAY 1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 OCT 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06 JUN 2017 as amended on 18 Nov 2019 as amended on 18 Nov 2019 as amended on 08 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 00933932 · Active
Contact on the register
01225824103 · info@designability.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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