HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1094046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEADWAY NORTH HERTS & STEVENAGE LIMITED

The company is established to promote the understanding of brain injury and to provide information and support to people who have acquired brain injury, their families and carers throughout Hertfordshire

Objects

(1)TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN HERTFORDSHIRE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A BRAIN INJURY, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONALS BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH INFORMATION, SERVICE AND FACILITIES, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.(2)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS RELATING TO BRAIN INJURY AND ITS PREVENTION.

Area of benefit: HERTFORDSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£347k
Latest spending
£376k
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £28,995 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £123,678 to £94,683. The trustees confirm that current unrestricted reserves cover the stated policy target of three months of expenditure. The organization maintains a going concern status with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% of income)
“Donations and legacies 2 132,260 204,338 336,598 398,549” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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: 18
  • Government income: £128,513 — contracts £128,513 (1); 37% of the £346,604 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Government income: £185,124 — grants £185,124 (1); 46% of the £406,279 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Government income: £129,495 — grants £129,495 (1); 47% of the £274,033 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 3 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway Hertfordshire (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£347k£376k
31/03/2024£406k£340k
31/03/2023£274k£325k
31/03/2022£211k£303k
31/03/2021£423k£262k

Common questions

Is HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £28,995 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £123,678 to £94,683. The trustees confirm that current unrestricted reserves cover the stated policy target of three months of expenditure. The organization maintains a going concern status with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST, THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUST, THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE STEVEN BLOCH IMAGE OF DISABILITY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024Unverified read£91kGrant
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUSTFY2024£10kSmaller Grants
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2024£5kMount Fund
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2025£5kMount Fund - Mental Health
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2022£5kThe Mount Fund - Mental Health
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITYFY2025£2kTowards new laptops

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund17/11/2025£20kHeadway Hertfordshire Group Coordinator
Sport England14/08/2025£15kNew Me!
Postcode Lottery01/11/2023£25kUnrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund11/05/2023£216kHeadway Hertfordshire Growth and Programme Expansion
Postcode Lottery27/07/2022£25kSupport Coordinator Salary
The National Lottery Community Fund23/04/2019£41kWho Cares Wins
The National Lottery Community Fund28/02/2019£92kExpanding our Geographical and Developing Carer Services
The National Lottery Community Fund26/04/2018£10kWho Cares Wins!
The National Lottery Community Fund15/01/2014£9kACT now - better Access, better Chances, better Together.
The National Lottery Community Fund17/04/2013£257kHABIT (Helping Acquired Brain Injury Together) Plus
The National Lottery Community Fund14/06/2012£10kReconnecting to Health

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED£347k—0above—no doubt
HEADWAY SHROPSHIRE FY2025£1.6m——below—no doubt
HEREFORDSHIRE HEADWAY FY2026£333k—0above—no doubt
HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION FY2025£6.0m——within—no doubt
HEADWAY BRISTOL BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025£537k—0above—no doubt
HEADWAY LUTON LTD FY2025£460k—0below40.8%no doubt

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