BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 1137560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4955786 · Wikipedia · also known as BRAIN RESEARCH UK, BRT, THE BRT

Brain Research UK (the working name of Brain Research Trust) promotes and supports basic and clinical research into neurological disease which affects one in five people in the UK. We fund ground-breaking research at UK-wide centres of excellence for scientific research into neurological diseases and conditions.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT BY ALL AVAILABLE MEANS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION INTO AND STUDY OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ALLIED SUBJECTS, AND PARTICULARLY THE CAUSES, MEANS OF PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, METHOD OF TREATMENT AND CURE OF SUCH DISEASES AND PUBLICATION OF SUCH RESEARCH, STUDY AND INVESTIGATION (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH”) WHICH TERM SHALL INCLUDE THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY (QUEEN SQUARE) AND SUCH OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN WHICH SUCH RESEARCH INVESTIGATION OR STUDY IS OR IS TO BE PURSUED.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £388,000, driven by investment gains of £445,000. The charity holds a strong reserve position with £9,049,000 in unrestricted funds, which exceeds its policy target of nine months of non-grant expenditure. The trustees confirm that the financial forecasts support the going concern assumption with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 — Brain Research UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Caroline Blakely — Chief Executive (source)
• Mira Beattie — Director (source)
• Ben Twyman — Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~24.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jim Gollanchair
• Dr Aoife Regan
• JONATHAN KROPMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Storrs
• Paul Vernon Wright
• Prof Kevin Talbot · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Joanna Wardlaw
• Vijay Jassal · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BRAINSTRUST.

• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• RE:COGNITION HEALTH BRAIN AND MIND FOUNDATION income £419
• THE BRAIN TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• MANCHESTER NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH TRUST FUND income £33k
• MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH UK income £280k

Side by side with its peers

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