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Registered charity · London

D&AD

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £7.9m (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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England, Scotland
Website
www.dandad.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
D&AD
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.9m£7.8m
  • 2024£8.0m£7.8m
  • 2023£8.3m£7.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.2m£5.4m
  • 2021£6.3m£5.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A. TO ACQUIRE AND TAKE OVER THE WHOLE OF THE UNDERTAKING OF THE DESIGNERS AND ART DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF LONDON AND WITH A VIEW THERETO TO ACQUIRE ALL OR ANY OF THE DEBTS AND LIABILITIES OF THAT ASSOCIATION.(B) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY BY ENCOURAGING THE UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND COMMISSION OF GOOD DESIGN IN COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA OF ALL KINDS BY PROVIDING , PRESENTING ORGANISING, AND MANAGING EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, TOURS OF VARIOUS BRITISH AND FOREIGN CITIES, CLASSES, LECTURES SEMINARS, TUTORIALS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. (C) TO EMPLOY, RETAIN AND PAY DESIGNERS, ARTISTS, PUBLISHERS, PROFESSIONALS AND TECHNICAL ADVISERS, SECRETARIES, CLERKS AND OTHERS WHOSE SERVICES ARE REQUIRED OR DEEMED NECESSARY FOR CARRYING OUT THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

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.

15 trustees on the board

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 15Education/training 15

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 12Professional services 4Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£7.9m 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.

10.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 9.4 in 2021

52 from 50 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
305992
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21ST JUNE 1966, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS ON 21/4/1961,14/9/1967, 25/1/1983, 13.10.1988, 1.08.1990,1.10.1991, 22.03.1993, 24.01.96, 20TH NOVEMBER 1997, 16 MARCH 2000 AND 29TH OCTOBER 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 SEP 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 DEC 2017
Companies House
Company number 00883234 · Active
Contact on the register
02078401111 · john.misselbrook@dandad.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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