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Registered charity · Godmersham

The British Contact Lens Association Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £527k (2024)
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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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.bcla.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Contact Lens Association Limited
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£527k£621k
  • 2023£1.1m£940k
  • 2022£419k£481k
Earlier years
  • 2021£550k£598k
  • 2020£337k£461k
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE FIELD OF CONTACT LENS PRACTICE AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
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 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 8Property 6Education 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£527k latest income
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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.0 in 2020

6 from 5 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
803544
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/10/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/05/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/05/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 JUN 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 SEP 2021
Companies House
Company number 01336067 · Active
Contact on the register
02084347921 · admin@bcla.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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