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Registered charity · Berkshire

The British Dyslexia Association

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Shoshana Whybrow.

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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Dyslexia Association
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.3m
  • 2023£1.9m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.7m
Charitable objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE COMPANY ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO ALL ASPECTS OF DYSLEXIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS, AND TO CONDUCT RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INTO THE PROBLEMS OF DYSLEXIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DYSLEXIC PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 11Disability 10Other Charitable Purposes 2Economic/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.

Education 13Health and social care 3Other services 3

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£2.2m 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.2 in 2021

52 from 29 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
289243
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 9TH JUNE 1983, REVISED 1993, NOVEMBER 1994, JULY 1996, 14 MAY 2005 AND 19 NOVEMBER 2005.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 NOV 2008 as amended on 30 Sept 2024
Companies House
Company number 01830587 · Active
Contact on the register
03334054555 · finance@bdadyslexia.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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