BRITISH PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1159115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BPNA

Promote the health and well-being of children with neurological disorders through: providing training and education through face-to face course and distance learning to professionals caring for children with neurological disorders to improve diagnosis and care; promoting research; providing professional support to members and working with health service providers to improve care.

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Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.3m

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position remains healthy, with unrestricted reserves of £866,101 providing over seven months of trading capacity. The charity reported a net expenditure of £42,229 for the year, largely driven by significant grant funding and international course development costs, while maintaining a strong cash balance of £1,002,347.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: five months of Secretariat salaries plus major overheads including office rentals (held: £866k)

“in 2023-24 the trustees increased an unrestricted contingency fund to £250,000 which is held in order to mitigate the risk of liquidity concerns. The trustees have agreed the level of funds held in this account based on the equivalent of five month's Secretariat salaries plus major overheads including office rentals.” — page 28

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Donnelly Bentley Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Philip Levine — Executive Director (source)
Laura James — 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.

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

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.3m

Reserves (reported)

£886k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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 (17/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Ailsa McLellan
Dr Daniel Edward Lumsden
Dr Dipak Ram
Dr Katherine Jane Hassell
Dr Manali Chitre · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Manish Prasad
Dr Santosh Mordekar
Professor Sameer Mustafa Zuberi
Professor Samir Amin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Brazil · Burma · Colombia · Ghana · India · Kenya · New Zealand · Qatar · South Africa · Sudan · Tanzania

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.3m	£1.3m
31/03/2024	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/03/2023	£1.2m	£1.0m
31/03/2022	£729k	£606k
31/03/2021	£724k	£520k

Common questions

Is BRITISH PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's financial position remains healthy, with unrestricted reserves of £866,101 providing over seven months of trading capacity. The charity reported a net expenditure of £42,229 for the year, largely driven by significant grant funding and international course development costs, while maintaining a strong cash balance of £1,002,347. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Donnelly Bentley Ltd.

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 KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION	2	£145k
BARROW FOUNDATION UK	1	£1.2m
THE ICELAND FOODS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.2m
PROJECT GIVING BACK	1	£570k
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£300k
THE BERKELEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£210k
THE DISCWORLD FOUNDATION	1	£180k
NRT	1	£103k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH NEUROLOGISTS.

ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH NEUROLOGISTS income £1.7m
THE BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £189k
ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN NEUROLOGY income £274k
THE NEUROKINEX CHARITABLE TRUST income £310k
THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS income £2.1m
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRITISH PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATION	£1.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH NEUROLOGISTS FY2025	£1.7m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY FY2024	£189k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN NEUROLOGY FY2024	£274k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NEUROKINEX CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£310k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS FY2025	£2.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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