THE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1062270 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Design and Technology Association is the recognised professional organisation for all design and technology educators and aims to inspire, develop and support excellence in the subject. The Association helps to improve the quality of planning, teaching, management and leadership of the subject and, therefore, contributes to a better and more effective learning experience for children.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted surplus of £20,267 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,031,442. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of £970,000, representing nine months of annual operating costs, and the actual reserves exceed this target.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Design and Technology Association (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tony Ryan — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Ryan Ball — Director of Education (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• OnePlanet — “This award sponsored by OnePlanet recognises a business’s outstanding contribution to design and technology education through its ongoing re…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Jack Twist
• Catherine Helen Davis
• Christopher Hatherall
• Clive Antony Grinyer
• Drew Robert Eric Wicken
• Felicity Milton
• Katie Samantha Cresswell-Maynard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Li Yun Yap
• Matthew Norman McLain
• Michael Omoniyi Omotosho
• Nurgul Yardim Mericliler
• Paul David Calver

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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).

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Side by side with its peers

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