THE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY

Registered charity 1150054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TBTF

The Brain Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, making a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families. We are committed to having the biggest possible impact for everyone affected by a brain tumour, to defending the most amazing part of the human body, so that the diagnosis of a brain tumour is no longer a death sentence.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew 8% to a record £15.3m, while expenditure on charitable activities increased by 7% to £12.3m. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £1.7m, which is above its stated policy target of £1m, and maintains £18.1m in liquid assets against £13m in committed research expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Brain Tumour Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fraser Alexander Longdenchair
• Anna Rhian Jarvis
• Caroline Steel
• Dr Elena Bechberger
• Dr Kieran Richard Palmer
• Dr Rachel Suzanne Edgar
• Hayley Ann Conroy
• Julia Clare Osgerby
• Matimba Charity Swana
• Sukhdip Sandhu

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

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

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 BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT.

• BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT income £575k
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH income £8.7m
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• ASTRO BRAIN TUMOUR FUND income £177k
• OSCAR'S PAEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY income £382k
• BRAINSTRUST income £779k

Side by side with its peers

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