BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 1137560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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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Charities like this

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

• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK income £61.9m
• CHILD BRAIN INJURY TRUST income £1.8m
• THE NEUROKINEX CHARITABLE TRUST income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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