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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Marwoodchair
• Andrew Monk
• Dr Anna Chatzimichali
• Dr Benjamin William Metcalfe
• Elisabeth Sarah Skeet
• Emma Kate Legg
• 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.

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 £388k
• THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF DESIGNERS income £196k
• YATELEY INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED LIMITED income £1.5m
• THEATRE DESIGN COURSE LIMITED income £100k
• JENNYRUTH WORKSHOPS LTD income £561k
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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