BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT

Registered charity 1163856 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide support to those who are affected by a brain tumour.

Objects

CHARITABLE PURPOSES2.1 THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1.1 THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM BRAIN TUMOURS BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND INFORMATION FOR SUCH PERSONS AND TO OFFER SUPPORT, ADVICE AND INFORMATION TO THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES; AND2.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECTS AND CAUSES OF BRAIN TUMOURS AND THE PUBLIC DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income increase to £66,666 for the year ending March 2025, driven by a rise in total income to £574,659. Free reserves increased to £41,592, though this remains below the board's stated policy target of three months' free reserves (£126,998). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Complaints 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
• 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 — BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Woodheadchair
• Anne Felmingham
• Belinda Coghlan
• JOHN PAUL STUART
• Samuel Derricourt
• Stephen Mayers
• Venkatachalam Venkatiyer

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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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 CAMPAIGN.

• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• THE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY income £15.3m
• ASTRO BRAIN TUMOUR FUND income £177k
• BRAINSTORM (THE OXFORD BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION) CIO income £51k
• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• BHM CHARITABLE TRUST income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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