CEREBRA - FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Registered charity 1089812 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CEREBRA

Funding research, sharing information, supporting parents and carers, providing direct financial support primarily for children and young people with brain injuries

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £167,703 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £665,163 remain above the stated policy target of 10 weeks of operating costs, and the auditors have concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cerebra- For Brain Injured Children and Young People (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jessica Camburn-Rahmani — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Charlotte Geeves — Chair of the Trustees (source)
• Ralph Nicholls — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Beverley Hitchcock — Director of Research & Support Services (source)
• Max Newton — Director of Fundraising, Marketing & Communications (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 53.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brandon James Moss
• Charlotte Geeves
• DAVID JOHN BEATTIE
• Isabel Shapiro
• Jan Crosby
• Johanna Rachel Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
• May Atkinson
• Nigel Edward Over

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST.

• CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST income £1.8m
• Headway London - Brain Injury Services income £2.5m
• HEADWAY NORFOLK AND WAVENEY LTD income £1.1m
• Headway Suffolk and Norfolk LTD income £1.8m
• HEADWAY COTSWOLD TRUST LIMITED income £387k
• HEADWAY PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST HAMPSHIRE income £311k

Side by side with its peers

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