CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST

Registered charity 1113326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q45136385 · also known as CBIT · also registered in Scotland as SC039703 (OSCR)

The Child Brain Injury Trust provides support, information and training for anyone affected by childhood acquired brain injury throughout the United Kingdom.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES BY PROVIDING TREATMENT, SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION, PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF BRAIN INJURIES, ADVANCING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN INJURIES TO CHILDREN AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £92,733 and total net assets of £781,508, maintaining a healthy cash position. Per the trustees' report, the charity retained reserves equivalent to nine months of operating expenditure, which aligns with their stated reserves policy target. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSA Prospect 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
• 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

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05738517

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Child Brain Injury Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PICKERING, Andrea Joy, Dr — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• NEAL, Emily Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Stacey Rebecca — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• JARVIS, Aaron John — director, appointed 13/02/2025on trustee list
• BLODWELL, Vicky Jane — director, appointed 13/02/2025on trustee list
• DEMARCHI, Celia Gwendoline, Dr — director, appointed 20/07/2023on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Stephen Frank — director, appointed 18/01/2017on trustee list
• BREMNER, Stephanie — secretary, appointed 20/11/2015

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen O'Neillchair
• Aaron John Jarvis
• Dr Andrea Joy Pickering
• Dr Celia Demarchi
• Emily Elizabeth Neal
• Inez May Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stacey Rebecca Arnold
• Vicky Jane Blodwell

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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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 THE CHILDREN'S TRUST.

• THE CHILDREN'S TRUST income £36.0m
• CEREBRA - FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE income £2.8m
• UNITED KINGDOM ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY FORUM income £230k
• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• HEADWAY BRISTOL BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £537k
• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k

Side by side with its peers

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