HEADWAY NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE (HEAD INJURIES ASSOCIATION) LTD

Registered charity 1077770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Headway North Staffordshire provides rehabilitation & respite facilities for adults 18 plus with acquired, traumatic or stroke related head injuries. Headway House provides a meeting place with facilities for improving mobility social, domestic, educational and social skills. We provide support and daily respite for relatives.Activities include :Gym and Physiotherapy,Social Activities

Objects

TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REHABILITATE AND RELIEVE FROM THEIR DISABILITIES PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD-INJURY AND TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED IN CASES OF NEED TO ASSIST THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS PRINCIPALLY IN RESPECT OF SUCH PERSONS AS RESIDE IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE

Area of benefit: NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £20k for the year, with total income of £774k and expenditure of £727k. The trustees report that the charity is in good financial health and that current free reserves of £273,776 meet the stated policy target of retaining £210,000.

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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway North Staffordshire (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Donna Marie Lawton
• Joanne Landers
• Michael Hardacre
• Michelle Gunnery
• Rebecca Clayton
• Sara Tudor-Ansell

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEADWAY SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

• HEADWAY SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE income £165k
• HEADWAY SHROPSHIRE income £1.3m
• HEREFORDSHIRE HEADWAY income £183k
• HEADWAY WORCESTERSHIRE income £977k
• HEADWAY BRISTOL BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £497k
• HEADWAY MILTON KEYNES LIMITED income £138k

Side by side with its peers

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