BRITISH DEAF ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1031687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4969872 · Wikipedia · also known as BDA, BDA NORTHERN IRELAND, BDA SCOTLAND, BDA WALES · also registered in Scotland as SC042409 (OSCR)

BDA currently provides various services: (1) Deaf Children, Youth and Families; (2) Deaf Community Advocacy; (3) Deaf Community Development and Empowerment; (4) Deaf Heritage Films; (5) Deaf International; (6) Media, Communications and Membership; (7) Policy, Research and Campaigns; and (8) British Sign Language. Community offices based in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Derby and Glasgow.

Objects

TO RELIEVE DEAF PEOPLE AND TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 2.39% to £2,477,672, driven largely by a drop in legacy income, while expenditure increased significantly to £2,173,573. Despite this, the charity reported a surplus of £304,099, resulting in unrestricted general funds of £1,992,138, which the trustees confirm are in excess of their stated reserves policy target of 50% of annual expenditure. The charity also holds a pension reserve of £199,932 against a defined benefit scheme liability, with the auditors confirming no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02881497

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Deaf Association (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DREW, Jeffery Mark Stephen — director, appointed 22/11/2025on trustee list
• NELSON, Victoria Louise — director, appointed 17/11/2024on trustee list
• YUSUF, Mohammed Irfan — director, appointed 12/11/2023on trustee list
• MUDAWI, Ahmed — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• SHAIKH, Hamza — director, appointed 05/11/2022on trustee list
• ADAM, Robert Edward James — director, appointed 26/06/2021on trustee list
• MANSELL, Rebecca — secretary, appointed 30/04/2022

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ahmed Mudawi
• HAMZA SHAIKH
• Jeffery Drew
• John Denerley
• Michael Kyriakides
• Mohammed Irfan Yusuf
• Robert Adam
• Victoria Nelson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• BRADFORD DEAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £210k
• THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• ACTION DEAFNESS income £3.1m
• ACCESS BEDFORD income £86k
• DEAF CONNEXIONS income £239k
• BRITISH DEAF HISTORY SOCIETY LIMITED income £49k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.