BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS

Registered charity 258474 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q19600599 · Wikipedia · also known as B A D

Promote for the public benefit the research, knowledge, practice and teaching of Dermatology

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICE AND TEACHING OF DERMATOLOGY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a consolidated surplus of £454,983 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £7,977,466 against total expenditure of £7,626,690. Per the trustees' report, general reserves stood at £5.9m, which is significantly above the stated policy target of approximately £1.6m required to maintain operations for six to nine months without income. The trustees and auditors confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of people with chronic urticaria 2021 onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 13/11/2021
• British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of people with vitiligo 2021 onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 23/06/2021
• British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of people with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma 2020* onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 04/11/2020
• British Association of Dermatologists' guidelines for the management of Stevens–Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis in children and young people, 2018 onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 04/03/2019
• 2018 Guidelines on generalised pruritus by British Association of Dermatologists speciality.medicaldialogues.in · 05/10/2018

Funders the charity credits

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

• British Association of Dermatologists — “A post-doctoral data analyst is embedded within NDRS, funded by the BAD, to develop and complete selected projects.” (source page)

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• MELODY - federated MachinE Learning fOr DermatologY —

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (14,248 followers) · instagram (15K followers) · linkedin (10,126 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~21.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Anshoo Sahota
• Dr Bjorn Thomas
• Dr Elizabeth Mcmullen
• Dr Emma McMullen
• Dr Graham Johnston
• Dr Harriet O'Neill
• Dr Helen Frow
• Dr Inge Kreuser-Genis
• Dr Manpreet Sagoo
• Dr Nasim Rouhani
• Dr Pamela Todd
• Dr Paula Beattie
• Dr Richard Goodwin
• Dr Saul Halpern
• Dr Sharmela Darne
• Dr Simon Tso
• Dr Stephen Keohane
• Dr Sura Sahib
• Dr Tamara Griffiths · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Victoria Swale
• Professor John Lear
• Professor John McGrath
• Professor Minal Singh
• Professor Viktoria Eleftheriadou

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH DERMATOLOGICAL NURSING GROUP.

• THE BRITISH DERMATOLOGICAL NURSING GROUP income £855k
• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DAY SURGERY income £240k
• BRITISH MEDICAL LASER ASSOCIATION income £49k
• BRITISH COLLEGE OF AESTHETIC MEDICINE income £376k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGEONS income £697k
• BRITISH BURN ASSOCIATION income £337k

Side by side with its peers

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