HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION
Registered charity 1025852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEADWAY NATIONAL HEAD INJURIES ASSOCIATION LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC039992 (OSCR)
Headway - the brain injury association promotes understanding of brain injury and provides information, support and services to people with a brain injury , their families and carers.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity made a net deficit of £583,168 for the year, driven by a reduction in fundraising and retail income alongside increased costs and exceptional expenditure from redundancies and shop closures. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were reduced to £1,774,611, a figure the trustees confirm is in compliance with their policy of holding between 6 and 9 months of budgeted unrestricted charitable expenditure.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: between 6 and 9 months of budgeted unrestricted charitable expenditure (held: £1.8m)
“set a new policy for a free reserve, with a requirement to hold between 6 and 9 months of budgeted unrestricted charitable expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
What the charity says about itself (2025)
From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.
Helpline enquiries
“10,294 enquiries through the helpline”
Publications downloaded
“34,603 factsheets and e-booklets downloaded”
Identity Cards issued
“1,714 new Brain Injury Identity Cards issued with a further 455 reissued”
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway - the brain injury association (matched by registered charity number).
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.
- CALLAN, Rob — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
- GANAU, Mario — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
- MOORE, Belinda May — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
- HAWLEY, Adrian John — director, appointed 11/10/2024on trustee list
- CHARNLEY, Alexa Louise — director, appointed 06/10/2023on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £521k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£4.0m
Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 66.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (23/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (09/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Belinda Moorechair
- Adrian John Hawley
- Alexa Louise Charnley
- Jane Muriel Allberry CBE
- Mario Ganau
- Rob Callan
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Guernsey · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a net deficit of £583,168 for the year, driven by a reduction in fundraising and retail income alongside increased costs and exceptional expenditure from redundancies and shop closures. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were reduced to £1,774,611, a figure the trustees confirm is in compliance with their policy of holding between 6 and 9 months of budgeted unrestricted charitable expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.
Who funds HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE RAINFORD TRUST, THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
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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