CEREBRA - FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Registered charity 1089812 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4970109 · Wikipedia · 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

Objects

THE RELIEF OF BRAIN INJURY, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, MENTAL DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS PRIMARILY IN BABIES AND YOUNG CHILDREN BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH OR ASSISTING, FACILITATING FUNDING OR SPONSORING RESEARCH, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INTO ALL ASPECTS OF SUCH INJURIES, DISORDERS, DISABILITIES AND PROBLEMS AND PUBLISHING, THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

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: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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)

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

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 53.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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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Government & lottery funding

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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
• CANTERBURY UMBRELLA income £109k
• CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN income £579k
• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• BRAINS MATTER CHARITY income £239k
• FINNBAR'S FORCE income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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