THE GUARANTORS OF BRAIN

Registered charity 1197319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Guarantors of Brain promotes teaching, education and research into science of neurology and related clinical-academic disiplines, and the furthering of scientific and charitable purposes. It is funded by the publications Brain Journal and Brain Communications and provides finacial grants for a variety of events, meetings and study in the field of neuroscience.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE SCIENCE OF NEUROLOGY AND RELATED CLINICAL-ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £1,217,879 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties relating to going concern and that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Brain — “It is funded by the journals Brain and Brain Communications” (source page)
• Brain Communications — “It is funded by the journals Brain and Brain Communications” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~22.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Elizabeth Fisher
• Prof Emma Tallantyre
• Prof Kevin Talbot · trustee of 2 other charities
• Prof Mary Reilly
• Professor David Belin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor David James Sharp
• Professor Masud Husain

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE BRAIN CHARITY.

• THE BRAIN CHARITY income £1.8m
• BARROW FOUNDATION UK income £169k
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST income £4.4m
• THE BRAIN TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• JOINT NEUROSCIENCES COUNCIL income £43k
• THE BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £181k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.