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British American Drama Academy

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Where
Camden, Oxfordshire
Website
www.bada.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British American Drama Academy
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.4m£3.2m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.6m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.6m
  • 2021£393k£892k
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY BY STIMULATING AND GIVING INSTRUCTION IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE PERFORMINGH AND THEATRICAL ARTS.

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.9y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

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 11Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 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 11Professional services 4Mining 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£3.4m 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.

5.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.1 in 2021

8 from 6 in 2022
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
291796
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28TH JUNE 1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 OCT 2018 as amended on 02 Feb 2021 as amended on 26 Sep 2022 as amended on 26 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 01828640 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7487 0730 · info@bada.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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