BRAKE

Registered charity 1093244 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRAKECARE, FLEET SAFETY FORUM, ROAD SAFETY WEEK

To affect positive action by people to achieve a world of safe, sustainable, fair and healthy transport AND To help relieve the suffering of people bereaved or seriously injured in road crashes.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished 2024 with unrestricted reserves of £696,129, which the Trustees confirm meets their policy target of covering a minimum six months' overheads. The independent auditors reported that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Air Ambulances UK Highlights Road Safety Week With National Campaign charitytoday.co.uk · 19/11/2025
• AA urges drivers to tackle deferred repairs as Road Safety Week highlights vehicle safety motortradenews.com · 17/11/2025
• Road Safety Week (16 - 22 November): Air Ambulance for Sussex calls on drivers to ensure their vehicles are safe sussexexpress.co.uk · 14/11/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03260243 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ross Moorlock — CEO (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.

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.

• BRADBURY, Simon James — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• BYARD, Mark — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• HAINES, Charlotte Lucy — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• NARAN, Meera Dilesh — director, appointed 18/01/2022on trustee list
• CHRISTMAS, Simon, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• CUERDEN, Richard William — director, appointed 07/06/2016on trustee list
• SLEIGHTHOLME, Deborah Susan — director, appointed 21/04/2008on trustee list
• CUERDEN, Richard William — secretary, appointed 09/08/2023

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 18.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEBORAH SLEIGHTHOLMEchair
• Charlotte Lucy Haines
• David Richard Twyford
• Dr Elizabeth Box
• Dr Simon Christmas
• Julie Birch
• Mark Byard
• Richard Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard William Cuerden
• Simon James Bradbury
• Stephen Cole
• Susan Jill Weekley

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

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

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• ROADSAFE income £889k
• ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION income £977k
• TYRESAFE income £274k
• ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT income £371k
• THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY income £350k
• THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST income £102.1m

Side by side with its peers

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