THE MIGRAINE TRUST

Registered charity 1081300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042911 (OSCR)

Research into the nature,causes,diagnosis,prevention and treatment of migraine and to disseminate the useful results of such research.Help relieve the sickness and preserve the health of sufferers of migraine.Advance the education of health professionals and the public in the subject of migraine.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net shortfall of £54,000 for the year, driven by total expenditure of £1,124,000 against income of £1,008,000. Free reserves stood at £415,000, which the trustees consider appropriate given the target range of £500,000 to £700,000 and the uncertainty surrounding legacy income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Migraine Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Jane Walderchair
• Dr Gina Mikala Kennedy
• Dr Kay Kennis
• Iain Searle Pelling
• Katy Elizabeth Brown
• Mark Burdon
• Philippa Leigh Kindersley
• Ponnudas Prabhakar
• Professor Peter Goadsby
• Stephanie Catherine Boileau Hayle · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL MIGRAINE CENTRE.

• NATIONAL MIGRAINE CENTRE income £826k
• THE GET A HEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £351k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TRUST income £3.1m
• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• MY MITO MISSION income £132k
• THE NATALIE KATE MOSS TRUST income £216k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.