BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1150237 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BERA

Our current strategic priorities are to:Support and promote the highest quality educational research.Inform policy and practice. Promote knowledge and understanding within and beyond the field.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£2.0m

Registered

2012

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a strong financial situation with healthy unrestricted reserves of £2,584,327, which are well in excess of the stated policy benchmark of a 1:1.4 ratio between turnover and reserves. While the trustees acknowledge external pressures on higher education and publishing income, they confirm the organization is operating on a very secure financial footing with sufficient reserves for short-term crisis management.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £100,001 - £110,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“one employee earning a salary between £100,000 and £110,000”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Nick Johnson — Chief Executive (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.

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

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

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£2.0m

Cost of raising funds

£155k

Reserves (reported)

£2.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~15.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (09/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Mhairi Beatonchair
Dr Aimee Frances Quickfall
Dr Barbara Skinner
Dr Gerry Czerniawski
Dr Gurpinder Lalli
Dr Mabel Encinas
Dr Ros McLellan
Dr Sally Power · trustee of 2 other charities
Dr Sheine Virtue Allyvene Peart
Dr Yuwei Xu
Professor Andrew James Davies
Professor Diana Burton
Professor Morag Redford
Professor Paul Miller
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope · trustee of 1 other charity
Professor Vivienne Baumfield

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
31/12/2024	£2.0m	£2.0m
31/12/2023	£1.3m	£1.4m
31/12/2022	£1.2m	£1.1m
31/12/2021	£1.0m	£808k
31/12/2020	£862k	£601k

Common questions

Is BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity remains in a strong financial situation with healthy unrestricted reserves of £2,584,327, which are well in excess of the stated policy benchmark of a 1:1.4 ratio between turnover and reserves. While the trustees acknowledge external pressures on higher education and publishing income, they confirm the organization is operating on a very secure financial footing with sufficient reserves for short-term crisis management. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £100,001 - £110,000 band.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MAURICE WOHL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.4m
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£518k
THE SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST	1	£214k
THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA	1	£72k
BRITISH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION	1	£32k
THE CORCORAN FOUNDATION	1	£1k
MARC FITCH FUND	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE.

HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE income £842k
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SOCIETY income £374k
THE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES income £193k
BRITISH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION income £374k
THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES income £106.2m
THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £690k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION	£2.0m	£100,001 - £110,000	—	above	—	no doubt
HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE FY2025	£842k	£110,000 - £119,999	1	above	—	no doubt
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SOCIETY FY2025	£374k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES FY2025	£193k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION FY2025	£374k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES FY2025	£106.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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