BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH

Registered charity 1153487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH ENTERPRISES · also registered in Scotland as SC046840 (OSCR)

Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer..yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease.This is unacceptable!We are striving to fund a network of 7 research centres whilst challenging government and larger cancer charities to invest more in brain tumour research.Help us fund the fight and find a cure.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a record income of £8.7 million and increased its free unrestricted reserves to £3 million, which is above its stated policy target of £2 million. The trustees confirm the charity can pay its liabilities as they fall due until at least December 2026, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sacha Dingomal — Director (source)
• Dr Karen Noble — Director (source)
• Sue Castle-Smith — Director (source)
• Rachael Clayton-Fish — 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT HUGHESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID MICHAEL SAUNDERS
• Denise Elaine Sefton
• Dr Nicola Elizabeth Haines
• JEREMY ARON
• Jack Andrew Goodwin
• Melanie Jarrett
• NIGEL BOUTWOOD
• Oscar Kirby-Hogarty
• Sonia Ali Horrocks
• WENDY FULCHER

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY.

• THE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY income £15.3m
• CANCER RESEARCH UK income £734.8m
• CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK income £17.8m
• BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT income £575k
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• Oracle Head and Neck Cancer UK Limited income £648k

Side by side with its peers

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