THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 290173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL BRAIN APPEAL, THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NERVOUS DISEASES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

The National Hospital Development Foundation (working name The National Brain Appeal) supports projects which aim to improve treatment, care and research around neurological disorders and diseases.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND TO ADVANCE MEDICAL EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS OF MONEY PRIMARILY TO THE NATIONAL HOSPITALS FOR NERVOUS DISEASES BUT ALSO TO ANY OTHER HOSPITAL, INSTITUTION OR ORGANISATION ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND/OR TO ADVANCE MEDICAL EDUCATION AS THE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT THINK FIT

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £4.19m in income, primarily from donations and legacies, while spending £3.43m on charitable activities and £1.22m on fundraising costs. Although the charity reported net current liabilities of £4.0m, the trustees and auditors confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, supported by unrestricted funds of £1.28m and investment assets valued at £12.46m.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01844281 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• NASH, Grant Robert — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• BYRNE, Charles Benedict — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• CAINE, Katharine, Dr — director, appointed 18/12/2025on trustee list
• LEIBOWITZ, David — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• RUDRAN, Dee — director, appointed 27/06/2024on trustee list
• MANJI, Hadi — director, appointed 08/04/2024on trustee list
• BAILLIE, Glenda — director, appointed 13/03/2024on trustee list
• MARCUS, Hani Joseph, Professor — director, appointed 28/09/2023on trustee list
• BLAKEY, Richard — director, appointed 09/02/2021on trustee list
• ASHLEY, Jacqueline — director, appointed 14/05/2020on trustee list
• HANNA, Michael Gergis, Professor — director, appointed 17/03/2016on trustee list
• OGILVY, Diarmid James Ducas — director, appointed 25/06/2015on trustee list
• DUNCAN, John Sidney, Prof — director, appointed 23/02/2010on trustee list
• WOODHILL, Claire — secretary, appointed 16/10/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Ashleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Byrne
• DAVID LEIBOWITZ
• Dee Rudran
• Dr Katharine Caine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glenda Baillie
• Grant Nash
• Hadi Manji
• Hani Marcus
• PROFESSOR JOHN DUNCAN
• PROFESSOR MICHAEL HANNA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Blakey

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 BRITISH PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATION.

• BRITISH PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR NEURO-DISABILITY income £60.7m
• FND ACTION income £59k
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST income £4.4m
• NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG FOUNDATION income £765k
• THE NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE CHARITY income £445k

Side by side with its peers

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