HEADWAY COTSWOLD TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 299805 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relief of persons who have suffered acquired brain injury through illness or accident, and their families and dependants

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURY OR BRAIN DAMAGE THROUGH ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT THEIR FAMILIES INCLUDING CO-HABITEES AND DEPENDANTS OR SUCH UNION WHO ARE IN NEED.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of -78,302 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of 172,607. The filing notes that the company is entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime and has not required an audit. The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for complying with accounting record requirements.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Headway Gloucestershire (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Barnwood Trust — “We are pleased to have received a grant from Barnwood Trust.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER DAVIESchair
• Dr FIONA JEAN CRANMORE
• HILARY ANN OSBORNE
• John Kenneth Bees
• Julie Long
• PAULINE LONSDALE

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEADWAY CAMBRIDGE AND PETERBOROUGH LTD.

• HEADWAY CAMBRIDGE AND PETERBOROUGH LTD income £217k
• HEADWAY NORFOLK AND WAVENEY LTD income £1.1m
• Headway London - Brain Injury Services income £2.5m
• HEADWAY SOMERSET income £251k
• UNITED KINGDOM ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY FORUM income £230k
• HEADWAY PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST HAMPSHIRE income £311k

Side by side with its peers

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