BRITISH HUMANIST ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 285987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUMANISTS UK

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Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £260k, largely due to unexpected legacy income of £810k. The trustees report that unrestricted funds are significantly above their reserves policy target of three months of expenditure, describing the position as 'fortunate' despite inflationary pressures.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Deborah Hyde — Chief Executive/CEO (source)
• Janet Ellis — Chair (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~13.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Amy Walden
• Charley Jarrett
• David Iain Deboys
• Emma Shepherd
• Ginny Collins
• Kate West
• Kay Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keiron McCabe
• Nicole Maxine Saunders
• Professor Simon Walker-Samuel
• Rebecca Jackson
• Roland Arthur Davis
• Satnam Lehal
• Sharda Dean
• Tamar Ghosh

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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