THE BRAIN TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1001012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRAIN CLUBS LIMITED

The Brain Trust was founded with one prime objective: to maximise the ability of each and every individual to unlock and deploy the vast capacity of his or her Brain. For activities undertaken please see our website, www.braintrust.org.uk

Objects

TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO STUDY OF THOUGHT PROCESSES, THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISMS OF THINKING, MANIFESTED IN LEARNING, UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION, PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVITY AND DECISION MAKING, TO DISSSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND STUDY AND TO PROMOTE GENERALLY EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES AND TO DEVELOP AND EXPLOIT NEW TECHNIQUES IN COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT INTENDED TO BE WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £71,226 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £33,217. Per the trustees' report, the charity operates a defined contribution pension plan and has no employees receiving emoluments exceeding £60,000. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the financial statements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02383683

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Raymond Keene OBE — Chairman and Global President (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.

• MAAL, Nusa Patricia, Dr — director, appointed 10/09/2025on trustee list
• SIMPOLE, Julian Ivan Peter — secretary, appointed 30/06/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RAYMOND DENNIS KEENE OBEchair
• ALEXANDER PHILIP SIMON KEENE
• Dr Nusa MAAL
• JULIAN IVAN PETER SIMPOLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jerome Christophe Hoarau
• MAREK STEFAN KASPERSKI
• MEHMET TASHANLIGIL
• MIKOLAJ LISIAK
• Sujan KATUWAL MBE

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRAINSTRUST.

• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST income £4.4m
• CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST income £1.8m
• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• BRAINBOX income £116k
• RE:COGNITION HEALTH BRAIN AND MIND FOUNDATION income £419

Side by side with its peers

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