THE BRAIN CHARITY

Registered charity 1114999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEUROSUPPORT

The Brain Charity offers emotional support, practical help and social activities to anyone with a neurological condition and to their family, friends, and carers. There are hundreds of different neurological conditions, including stroke, brain injury, dementia, cluster headaches, and many rarer ones too. We are here for every single one.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OR RELATED MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, TOGETHER WITH THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND CARERS, BY OFFERING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, PRACTICAL HELP, AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATING TO NEUROLOGICAL AND RELATED MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS.TO ACT AS THE SUCCESSOR BODY TO THE MERSEY NEUROLOGICAL TRUST.?

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an overall accounting surplus of £2,790 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following an operating deficit before depreciation. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £995,056, providing financial flexibility despite a challenging fundraising environment and increased demand for services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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.

In the news

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

• Brain charity calls for concussion subs after David Luiz plays on independent.co.uk · 30/11/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05741930 · Financial health read from its filings

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Brain Charity (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.

• RAHMAN, Rupak Salahuddin — director, appointed 09/04/2024on trustee list
• BURQUEST, Maria — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• BOATENG, Vanessa Akua — director, appointed 19/10/2021on trustee list
• MOORE, Perry Philip, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2021on trustee list
• CRAIG, Ian Ashley — director, appointed 02/04/2020on trustee list
• SALE, Jacqueline — director, appointed 03/10/2019on trustee list
• SILVER, Nicholas Charles, Dr — director, appointed 08/01/2018on trustee list
• WALSH, Timothy Gerard — director, appointed 08/05/2017on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, William John, Professor — director, appointed 07/10/2015on trustee list
• REA, Mark Christopher — director, appointed 31/07/2012on trustee list
• BURQUEST, Maria — secretary, appointed 25/06/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr NICHOLAS SILVER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Perry Moore
• Ian Ashley Craig · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Sale
• MARK REA
• Maria Burquest
• PROFESSOR WILLIAM CHAMBERS
• Professor Gus Baker
• Rupak Rahman
• Timothy Walsh
• Vanessa Boateng · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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

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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 BRAINS MATTER CHARITY.

• BRAINS MATTER CHARITY income £239k
• CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST income £1.8m
• MARILLAC NEUROLOGICAL CARE CENTRE income £7.5m
• BRAVE MIND income £103k
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST income £4.4m
• THE BRAIN AND SPINE FOUNDATION income £742k

Side by side with its peers

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