BRITISH ACOUSTIC NEUROMA ASSOCIATION CIO

Registered charity 1165065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH ACOUSTIC NEUROMA ASSOCIATION, BANA

BANA is a support & information charity connecting people with an Acoustic Neuroma diagnoises across the UK; online, and via a volunteer support network at area meetings. We have a dedicated support team and provide relevant and up to date information sourced from the medical profession. BANA actively supports research and will initiate research when funding allows.

Objects

1. ASSIST AND SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED AS HAVING OR WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED FOR ACOUSTIC NEUROMA (VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA) AND OTHER RELATED CONDITIONS AND OTHERS AFFECTED BY SUCH CONDITIONS.2.PROMOTE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO MEDICAL, SURGICAL AND OTHER PROCEDURES LIKELY TO LEAD TO THE PREVENTION, EARLY DETECTION AND SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF SUCH CONDITIONS AND ANY SUCH PROCEDURES ASSISTING IN THE REHABILITATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY SUCH CONDITIONS.

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

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Registered contact address: Chesterfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £68,921 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £80,493. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations and has adopted the going concern basis. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or pension deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Stevenschair
• Aarti Kumar
• Andrew Read
• James Gibbons
• Juliette Buttimore
• Laura Marshall
• Lisa Holmes
• Peter Monksfield
• Pooja Patel
• Suzanne Falkingham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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