HEADWAY BLACK COUNTRY

Registered charity 1089171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote understanding of all aspects of acquired brain injury and provide information, support and rehabilitation services for people with acquired brain injuries, their families and carers who live in the Black Country (the Metropolitan Boroughs of Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley and the City of Wolverhampton).

Objects

1) TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REHABILITATE AND RELIEVE FROM THEIR DISABILITIES PERSONS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY AND WHO RESIDE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND RECEIVING OR HAVE RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT THERE.2) TO RELIEVE THE FAMILIES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY.3) TO ENCOURAGE, PROVIDE AND SET UP SELF HELP GROUPS TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.4) TO PROVIDE OR ARRANGE AFTER-CARE/COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES (FOLLOWING HOSPITAL DISCHARGE) FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY.5) TO PROVIDE AND FACILITATE THE PROVISION OF PERMANENT HOMES OR SHORT STAY HOSTELS FOR SUCH PERSONS AND/OR THEIR RELATIVES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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 · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £26,211 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £782,839 to £756,628. The trustees' report notes that the key risk continues to be funding to ensure stability, with the charity actively exploring new services to provide sustainable income sources. Per the reserves policy, the charity aims to hold assets sufficient to cover operational costs for at least six months, a target which appears met given the unrestricted cash levels and total fund position.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04001321 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway Black Country (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).

• voestalpine Metsec — “voestalpine Metsec donates five computer monitors to Headway Black Country” (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.

• DAVIES, Peter James — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• KEYES, Alexander Liam — director, appointed 07/01/2026on trustee list
• DARWOOD, Gillian Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• BRENT, James Robert — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• PEJICA, Deborah Ann — director, appointed 05/12/2016on trustee list
• HATTON, Susan Mary — director, appointed 24/05/2000on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Ann Pejicachair
• Alexander Liam Keyes
• Gillian Elizabeth Darwood
• James Robert Brent
• Peter James Davies
• Susan Mary Hatton

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

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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Charities like this

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

• HEADWAY WORCESTERSHIRE income £977k
• HEADWAY SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE income £165k
• BLACK COUNTRY CIRCUIT income £235k
• HEADWAY SHROPSHIRE income £1.3m
• HEADWAY CARDIFF AND SOUTH EAST WALES income £542k
• THE SANDWELL CROSSROADS CARE ATTENDANT SCHEME LIMITED income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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