THE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY

Registered charity 1150054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17030288 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

4.1 The objects of the Charity (the “Objects”) are for the public benefit:-4.1.1 to relieve sickness and to promote and protect good health by supporting research into the nature, causes, diagnosis and treatment and social consequences of tumours of the brain and central nervous system and to publish the useful results of such research;4.1.2 the relief of suffering of people with tumours of the brain and central nervous system and their families and carers, through the provision of information and support to them; and4.1.3 to advance the education of the public in all areas relating to tumours of the brain and central nervous system.

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

Registered contact address: Hart, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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)

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

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

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Salesforce Developer — £60,000 per year · Remote · posted 1 week ago (seen 14/10/2026)
• Community Fundraiser (Covering London & South East Region) — £32,700 · Remote · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 14/10/2026)

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 3.7%) (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

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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 BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH.

• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH income £8.7m
• BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT income £639k
• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• BRAINSTORM (THE OXFORD BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION) CIO income £51k
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• Yorkshire's Brain Tumour Charity income £261k

Side by side with its peers

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