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BRITISH DIETETIC ASSOCIATION GENERAL AND EDUCATION TRUST FUND

Registered charity 282553 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B D A G E T

The BDA GET exists to advance education and other purposes related to the science of dietetics. The Trust can make grants to individuals and to recognised associations or groups of people engaged in dietetic research and associated activities.

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Latest income
£81k
Latest spending
£93k
Registered
1981
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FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £1,978,279 at the end of the financial year, an increase from the previous year's £1,914,079. The trustees consider the present level of reserves sufficient to meet their policy needs, including a contingency of around £750,000 for core support. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: The reserves are held: in order to create an income which the Trustees make available to applicants for grants for dietetic research and for funding short or modular training in research for dietitians; to provide for larger sums, advanced from time to time in the form of grants or repayable grants, to support specific projects; and to provide an emergency reserve from which work to sustain core support for the science of dietetics could be funded in the event of the failure of The British Dietetic Association. (held: £2.0m)
“The Trustees consider that the present level of reserves is sufficient to meet the needs set out above.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
28/02/2025£81k£93k
29/02/2024£83k£165k
28/02/2023£102k£129k
28/02/2022£79k£187k
28/02/2021£78k£132k

Common questions

Is BRITISH DIETETIC ASSOCIATION GENERAL AND EDUCATION TRUST FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £1,978,279 at the end of the financial year, an increase from the previous year's £1,914,079. The trustees consider the present level of reserves sufficient to meet their policy needs, including a contingency of around £750,000 for core support. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.