No
@JohnAdams you're not sh***y for having a negative opinion about the BTA at all. There is a lot of justifiable anger at the BTA's research funding decisions which can be seen on their social media pages.
The figure given by someone else on this thread of £80K a year spend is not correct - I think the most recent figures were around £140K per annum. Not a vast amount but not a negligible one either. If the BTA had teamed up with Action on Hearing Loss in the UK they could have together done some really significant work in terms of biomedical research towards a cure. Instead the BTA have chosen to spend in on yet more "habituation" studies to add to the 200 others out there.
Maybe the BTA will start to change direction this year - but we won't hold out breath. It certainly needs to.