THE MIGRAINE TRUST

Registered charity 1081300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6844296 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF MIGRAINE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES TO SUFFERERS OF MIGRAINE2. TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MIGRAINE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF MIGRAINE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY RAISING AWARENESS OF MIGRAINE, ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS AMONGST THE SAME

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net shortfall of £54k for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a significant drop in income from its biennial conference which was not held in this period. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £415k, which is below the stated policy target range of £500k to £700k, though the trustees remain satisfied that reserves are at an appropriate level to cover future operating costs.

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 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• NATIONAL MIGRAINE CENTRE income £826k
• Rethink Mental Illness income £43.9m
• THE NEUROKINEX CHARITABLE TRUST income £310k
• THE MINTRIDGE FOUNDATION income £140k
• MYAWARE income £449k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m

Side by side with its peers

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