BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS MEDICINE

Registered charity 1167785 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BAPAM

BAPAM is a healthcare charity giving medical advice to people working and studying in the performing arts through direct provision of information, clinical assessment and referral and through broader education, training, research and dissemination of knowledge about best practice in performing arts medicine

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROMOTION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STRESS AND ITS EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE AND; FOR THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH BY THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEDICAL CARE FOR ACTORS, MUSICIANS, DANCERS AND THOSE INVOLVED IN THE PERFORMING ARTS BY THE PROVISION OF TREATMENT AND PREVENTATIVE CARE AND BY ENCOURAGING RESEARCH IN THIS FIELD AND BY DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £419,258 in freely available funds, which is in line with the charity's policy target of maintaining three months of unrestricted expenditure. However, the trustees report a significant deficit expected in 2026 due to the withdrawal of a major funder, noting that reserves are currently held with some comfort against this anticipated financial pressure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Compass Accountants Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• PRS Members Fund — “IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRS MEMBERS FUND” (source page)

CQC provider record: British Association for Performing Arts Medicine — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 19/03/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (12/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER JOHN LEATHEMchair
• Adam Adnyana · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Walters
• Dr Dermott Davison OBE
• Dr Hara Trouli
• John Graham Turner · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL MEHTA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Hood
• Professor Damien Longson
• Professor Pat Woo
• Remilekun Harris

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

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

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PERINATAL MEDICINE income £357k
• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGEONS income £1.4m
• BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA income £170k
• PARENTS AND CARERS IN PERFORMING ARTS (PIPA) income £326k
• BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR ARTS THERAPIES income £489k
• THE BRITISH ONCOLOGY PHARMACY ASSOCIATION income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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