THE BRITISH DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 289243 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects are to advance the education of the public in relation to all aspects of dyslexia and related conditions, and to conduct research for the public benefit into the problems of dyslexia and related conditions and to disseminate the results of such research.To provide useful information for dyslexic individuals of all ages To work towards a dyslexic friendly society.

Objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE COMPANY ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO ALL ASPECTS OF DYSLEXIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS, AND TO CONDUCT RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INTO THE PROBLEMS OF DYSLEXIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DYSLEXIC PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bracknell Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational deficit of £326,340 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves to £362,164. The trustees note that unrestricted free reserves of £185,852 are below the target level of £429,000, but they are confident that the target level will be met by the end of the 2027-28 financial year following a restructure to reduce costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 07/06/2022, 127 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01830587 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: B.D.A. (INITIATIVES) LIMITED Companies House 02972167 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Dyslexia Association (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ellen Broomé — CEO (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• YELDHAM, Robert Justin — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• SQUANCE, Lucy Claire — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• CAVE, Andrew — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• HOWARTH, Susan Mary — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• JAMES-EDWARDS, Marlon Carlos — director, appointed 22/07/2025on trustee list
• WHYBROW, Shoshana Mary — director, appointed 23/08/2023on trustee list
• ASHLEY TAYLOR, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/08/2023not on trustee list
• BRISSETT-BAILEY, Marcia Marie — director, appointed 23/08/2023on trustee list
• STANTON, Barry Mark Andrew — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list
• RIVA, Enrico — director, appointed 23/10/2021on trustee list
• NIOLAKI, Georgia Zampia, Dr — director, appointed 13/03/2021on trustee list
• CATTERSON, Michelle — director, appointed 12/09/2020on trustee list
• NEALE, Timothy David — director, appointed 02/03/2019on trustee list
• NEWELL, Sasha Maree Arundel — secretary, appointed 19/06/2023

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Cave · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barry Stanton
• Dr Georgia Zampia Niolaki
• Enrico Riva
• Helen Elizabeth Ashley Taylor
• Lucy Squance · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marcia Marie Brissett-Bailey
• Marlon Carlos James-Edwards
• Michelle Catterson
• Robert Yeldham
• Shoshana Whybrow
• Susan Mary Howarth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy David Neale

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MADE BY DYSLEXIA.

• MADE BY DYSLEXIA income £980k
• THE DYSLEXIA TEACHING CENTRE income £62k
• THE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION income £468k
• THE DYSLEXIA RESEARCH TRUST income £100k
• BRITISH LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION income £134k
• DYSLEXIA CORNWALL income £4k

Side by side with its peers

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