THE BRITISH IRISH ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1194733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the BIA is to promote the advancement of education in international political affairs, the arts and social sciences in the United Kingdom and Ireland by increasing mutual knowledge and understanding between the peoples of Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland, particularly by bringing together leading representatives of the worlds of culture, politics, education and business.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS, THE ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets at the end of the period were £320,561, with a surplus of £58,907. The charity aims to hold sufficient funds to cover at least a year’s core costs in default of income. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern are disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Rt HON Dominic Charles Roberts GRIEVEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Adrian Gerard O'Neill
• Alison Charlotte Hilliard
• Catherine Anne Hayward
• David William Porter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Cathy Gormley-Heenan
• Professor Evelyn Jane Collins CBE
• Rory Godson
• Sir Ciaran Gearoid Devane

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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Side by side with its peers

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