HEADWAY WORCESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 702490 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEADWAY, HEADWAY WORCESTER TRUST LIMITED

Headway Worcestershire is working with adults with acquired brain injuries through the provision of 3 day services and our outreach service in Worcester, Bromsgrove and Kidderminster. We also provide community support and housing support. We were awarded "Outstanding" in our last CQC inspection.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURY OR BRAIN DAMAGE THROUGH ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT AND THEIR FAMILIES INCLUDING COHABITERS AND DEPENDANTS OF 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £72,912 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £874,920 to £802,008. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves available for general use stood at £283,511, which represents 3-4 months of typical expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02443464

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HEADWAY WORCESTERSHIRE (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARTLAND, Lisa Ellen — director, appointed 03/03/2026on trustee list
• FRENCH, Nick — director, appointed 13/05/2024on trustee list
• HOLLIS, Alison Claire — director, appointed 24/10/2022on trustee list
• MOORE, Helen Jane — director, appointed 20/12/2021on trustee list
• TARRANT, Leo — director, appointed 22/10/2018on trustee list
• VALENTINE, Paul Justin — director, appointed 26/02/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

CQC provider record: Headway Worcestershire — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/02/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Management HQ, Headway Worcester Trust: Outstanding (24/04/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Hollis
• Helen Jane Moore
• Leo Paul Tarrant
• Lisa Hartland
• Nick French
• Paul Valentine

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEADWAY WEARSIDE.

• HEADWAY WEARSIDE income £102k
• HEREFORDSHIRE HEADWAY income £333k
• HEADWAY ESSEX income £1.3m
• HEADWAY BATH AND DISTRICT income £183k
• HEADWAY CAMBRIDGE AND PETERBOROUGH LTD income £217k
• HEADWAY SHROPSHIRE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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