BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH — grant history

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Latest income

£8.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£4.6m

Accounts grants total

£3.8m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Brain Tumour Research does not accept unsolicited applications from researchers or institutions. Funding is directed through specific initiatives and Centres of Excellence, such as the Novel Therapeutics Accelerator where groups can apply for review, or by contacting the charity directly.

Summarised from www.braintumourresearch.org · www.braintumourresearch.org/pages/research-funded-initiatives · www.braintumourresearch.org/pages/about-our-fundraising-groups on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Cardiff (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University of Nottingham	—	£604k
up	Queen Mary University of London	£637k	£1.0m
up	Institute of Cancer Research	£200k	£809k
down	BRAINSTRUST	£50k	£25k

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Queen Mary University of London	FY2025	£1.0m	Research grants
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2025	£809k	Research grants
University of Nottingham	FY2025	£604k	Research grants
University of Plymouth	FY2025	£518k	Research grants
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£455k	Research grants
Imperial College London	FY2025	£423k	Research grants
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£320k	Research grants
University of Southampton	FY2025	£258k	Research grants
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission CIC	FY2025	£133k	Research grants
Cardiff University	FY2025	£69k	Research grants
brainstrust	FY2025	£25k	Research grants
Imperial College London	FY2024	£744k	Research
Queen Mary University of London	FY2024	£637k	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£634k	Research
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£541k	Research
University of Plymouth	FY2024	£440k	Research
University of Southampton	FY2024	£270k	Research
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2024	£200k	Research
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission CIC	FY2024	£102k	Research
brainstrust	FY2024	£50k	Research
Cardiff University	FY2024	£0	Research
Queen Mary University London	FY2023	£1.3m	Research Centre of Excellence
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2023	£1.1m	Research Centre of Excellence
Imperial College London	FY2023	£1.0m	Research Centre of Excellence
University of Plymouth	FY2023	£764k	Research Centre of Excellence
Cardiff University	FY2023	£172k	MRC-Funded Project
University of Southampton	FY2023	£106k	BRAIN UK
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission CIC	FY2023	£65k	Novel Therapeutics Accelerator
brainstrust	FY2023	£23k	PRIME Initiative
Queen Mary University of London	FY2022	£1.2m	Research Centre of Excellence
University of Plymouth	FY2022	£852k	Research Centre of Excellence
Imperial College London	FY2022	£813k	Research Centre of Excellence
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission CIC	FY2022	£131k	Brain Tumour Research Novel Therapeutics Accelerator (BTR-NTA)
University of Southampton	FY2022	£52k	BRAIN UK
brainstrust	FY2022	£30k	Patient Research Involvement Movement (PRIME)

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 4627705 vs reference 3848361 (20.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.