BILD ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED TRAINING

Registered charity 1190461 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BILD Association of Certified Training has been set up to certify training services that include a restrictive intervention. We are licenced by the Restraint Reduction Network to certify services as complying with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards. The standards aim to facilitate culture change, not just technical competence.

Objects

The Charity's objects are, for the public benefit, to: (a) advance training, education, and research; and (b) promote, protect and improve physical and mental health (including, without limitation, through the reduction of health inequalities and promotion of trauma informed relational working); to benefit people with disabilities (including but not limited to learning disabilities, autism, dementia and mental health difficulties); in particular but without limitation through the delivery of quality assurance and training certification. Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom.

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 · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £10,967 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted income of £789,090 against expenditure of £778,123. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £79,000, which is below the stated policy target of three months' operational costs, and the trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the going concern status.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11721648

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.

• ORCHARD, Jack Francis — director, appointed 07/11/2025on trustee list
• ASH, Marie — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• WALKER, Raymond Francis — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• BENSON, Iris — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• ROGERS, Penelope Jane — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• SARGENT, Teresa — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• FARMER, Dean Anthony — secretary, appointed 17/07/2025

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iris Benson
• Jack Francis Orchard
• Marie Ash · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Rogers
• Raymond Francis Walker
• Teresa Wendy Sargent

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BILD RESTRAINT REDUCTION NETWORK.

• BILD RESTRAINT REDUCTION NETWORK income £446k
• ROCHDALE TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £3.6m
• ABS TRAINING LTD income £207k
• BROADCAST JOURNALISM TRAINING COUNCIL income £157k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY income £15.3m
• BRS EDUCATION LIMITED income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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