Headway London - Brain Injury Services
Registered charity 1083910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEADWAY EAST LONDON, Headway London
The objectives of the charity are the relief, continuing rehabilitation and support of people who have suffered head injury or brain injury through illness or accident and their spouses, partners or relatives who have an unpaid responsibility for their daily care and treatment.
Objects
The relief, continuing rehabilitation and support of people who have suffered head injury or brain injury through illness or accident and their spouses, partners or relatives who have an unpaid responsibility for their daily care and treatment.
Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £62,394 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total fund balances of £591,986. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management 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
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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 25
- Government income: £1,772,840 — contracts £1,772,840 (14); 71% of the £2,481,379 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 35
- Government income: £1,748,461 — contracts £1,748,461 (13); 78% of the £2,245,307 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 35
- Government income: £1,714,052 — contracts £1,714,052 (15); 85% of the £2,005,349 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway London (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Osbornes Law — “This website is kindly sponsored by Osbornes Law” (source page)
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.
- MELVILLE-ROSS, Timothy David, Sir — director, appointed 18/06/2026on trustee list
- SAMWELL, Mairead — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
- HAYWARD, Sonita Devi — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
- SNEATH, Timothy Richard — director, appointed 05/12/2023on trustee list
- EDWARDS, Stephanie — director, appointed 09/03/2023on trustee list
- KERSHBERG, Alice — director, appointed 21/03/2022on trustee list
- GEERTSEMA, Willa Maria — secretary, appointed 16/04/2024
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£80k
Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (10/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Sir Timothy Melville-Rosschair
- Alice Kershberg
- Mairead Samwell
- Sonita Hayward
- Stephanie Edwards
- Timothy Richard Sneath
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout London
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Headway London - Brain Injury Services financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £62,394 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total fund balances of £591,986. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BK Plus Audit Limited.
Who funds Headway London - Brain Injury Services?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Headway London - Brain Injury Services as a grant recipient include THE GOLSONCOTT FOUNDATION, THE REED FOUNDATION, THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY, DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST, THE FORRESTER FAMILY 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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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEADWAY BRISTOL BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION LIMITED.
Side by side with its peers
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