NATIONAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR DENTAL NURSES

Registered charity 1112331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045470 (OSCR)

Education, training and examining of people as dental nurses to enable a level of skill and safety and operational excellence to be achieved.

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Latest income

£2.8m

Latest spending

£2.6m

Registered

2005

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that NEBDN generated a surplus of £239,422 for the year ended 28 February 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,348,670. The charity reports that its income from charitable activities was sufficient to fund operations and invest in developments, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £1,658,192 (held: £2.3m)

“NEBDN’s calculated Reserves for 2024/25 as per our policy £1,658,192.” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 05580200

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Kate Kerslake — CEO (source)
Nadine Davies — COO (source)
Dr Louise Belfield — Chair of Trustees (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.

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.

HANRATTY, Martin Joseph — director, appointed 24/02/2025on trustee list
WILLIAMS, Jeremy — director, appointed 24/02/2025on trustee list
BLACKMAN, Anthony — director, appointed 24/02/2025on trustee list
LOWER, Kirk Douglas — director, appointed 24/02/2025on trustee list
KALE, Anjali — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
LEE, Wenjie — director, appointed 14/10/2024not on trustee list
WESTWOOD, Kitty — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
MISTRY, Bhavna — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
DONNELLY, Mary — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
LINFOOT, Nicholas Guy — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
EASTMOND, Jillian — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
DARBAR, Ulpee, Dr — director, appointed 23/10/2020on trustee list
BELFIELD, Louise, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2019on trustee list
KERSLAKE, Katherine — secretary, appointed 28/02/2019

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Total income

£2.8m

Total spending

£2.6m

Cost of raising funds

£5k

Reserves (reported)

£2.2m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Anjali Kale
Anthony Blackman · trustee of 5 other charities
Bhavna Mistry
Dr Louise Belfield
Jeremy Williams
Jillian Eastmond
Kirk Lower
Mary Donnelly
Nicholas Linfoot
Ulpee Darbar
Wen Jie Lee

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
28/02/2025	£2.8m	£2.6m
29/02/2024	£2.4m	£2.1m
28/02/2023	£2.3m	£1.7m
28/02/2022	£1.3m	£1.4m
28/02/2021	£1.4m	£1.4m

Common questions

Is NATIONAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR DENTAL NURSES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that NEBDN generated a surplus of £239,422 for the year ended 28 February 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,348,670. The charity reports that its income from charitable activities was sufficient to fund operations and invest in developments, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL EXAMINATION BOARD IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH.

THE NATIONAL EXAMINATION BOARD IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH income £24.1m
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.1m
BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION TRUST FUND income £883k
15BILLIONEBP income £1.6m
BNJC income £4.1m
B.T.D.A. LIMITED income £889k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NATIONAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR DENTAL NURSES	£2.8m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE NATIONAL EXAMINATION BOARD IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH FY2025	£24.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION TRUST FUND FY2025	£883k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	below	—	no doubt
15BILLIONEBP FY2025	£1.6m	£70,001 - £80,000	—	below	—	no doubt
BNJC FY2025	£4.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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