DESIGNABILITY CHARITY LIMITED

Registered charity 256335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B I M E, BATH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ENGINEERING LIMITED, DESIGNABILITY

Designability Charity Limited is a design and development charity working in the fields of medicine, health care and assistive technology for disabled people

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, THE DISSEMINATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE THEREBY ACQUIRED AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED (BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY, AGE OR INFIRMITY) BY THE PROVISION OF DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT TO ASSIST IN THEIR MEDICAL TREATMENT OR IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a deficit, resulting in a decrease in total reserves to £1,601,279 from £2,119,125 in the prior year. Despite this reduction, the trustees remain confident that the charity has sufficient resources to continue operating for at least twelve months. The majority of the remaining reserves are restricted or designated for specific future projects, leaving a smaller general reserve.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer AuditCo Limited. 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Designability (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jim Bowes — Chief Executive (source)
• Genevieve Arney — Director (source)
• Matt Ford — Director (source)
• Laura Mirfield — Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• HandSpark Charitable Trust — “Every donation made until 31 August 2026 will be DOUBLED, up to £10,000, thanks to HandSpark Charitable Trust.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Marwoodchair
• Andrew Monk
• Dr Anna Chatzimichali
• Dr Benjamin William Metcalfe
• Dr Christopher James Clarke
• Elisabeth Sarah Skeet
• Julian Massie
• Karen Jane Lashly
• Kathryn Louise McKee
• Nicola Jane Wilson
• Paul John Fairhurst · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel James Whatley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 DEMAND DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE FOR DISABILITY.

• DEMAND DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE FOR DISABILITY income £361k
• DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH LIMITED income £129k
• DESIGN MIDLANDS LIMITED income £300k
• DESIGN FOR GOOD income £932k
• DRESSABILITY income £166k
• THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF DESIGNERS income £199k

Side by side with its peers

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