ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 263198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH DENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION, THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DENTAL HEALTH LIMITED

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE TO THE PUBLIC THE BENEFITS OF ACHIEVING ANDMAINTAINING HIGH STANDARDS OF ORAL HEALTH. THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE BRITISH DENTAL HEALTHFOUNDATION IS TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH BY PROVIDING IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT ADVICE,INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY IN ALL ITS ASPECTS AND IN PARTICULAR TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY IN THE BENEFITS OF ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING A HIGH STANDARD OF ORAL HEALTH.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £30,695 for the year ended 31 July 2025, which was linked to continued investment in mission delivery. However, total unrestricted reserves increased to £1,123,894, supported by strong investment gains of £33,151 and a diverse income base that reinforces financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oral Health Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Brady
• Dr Benjamin Atkins
• Dr Fiona Sandom
• Dr Soha Dattani
• Gemma Louise Barker
• Georgios Tsakos
• Ian Waller
• Jason Bunce · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Avijit Banerjee
• Professor Jonathon Timothy Newton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION TRUST FUND.

• BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION TRUST FUND income £883k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL IMPLANTOLOGY LIMITED income £1.1m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS income £895k
• COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION income £209k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION (UK) CIO income £1.9m
• 13 FOUNDATION income £127k

Side by side with its peers

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