Registered charity · Leicester
Leicestershire Leicester and Rutland Headway
- 11 trustees
- Income £271k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- REG PerrinsChair
- Carol BirchTrustee
- Christopher MckinneyTrustee
- Danielle Jane YoungTrustee · since 2024
- Dedunu Samudrika De SilvaTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Christopher Howard SwornTrustee · since 2013
- James LewisTrustee · since 2019
- Simon GerrardTrustee · since 2024
- Stephen NottridgeTrustee · since 2019
- Tharmananthar ShankaradhasTrustee · since 2019
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: James Crawford Aitkenhead.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability
- Where
- Leicestershire, Leicester City, Rutland
- Website
- www.headwayleicester.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Leicestershire Leicester and Rutland Headway
- Registered
- 1999
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£271k£291k
- 2024£239k£244k
- 2023£183k£230k
Earlier years
- 2022£232k£236k
- 2021£258k£241k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 29% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND FACILITIES TO REHABILITATE AND RELIEVE FROM THEIR DISABILITIES PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURIES AND WHO RESIDE IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND
Grants received
13 grants · £809,317 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £580,387 (5 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £90,400
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £60,000 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £38,830 (2 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £25,100
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- REG Perrins Chair
- Carol Birch
- Christopher Mckinney
- Danielle Jane Young since 2024
- Dedunu Samudrika De Silva since 2020
- Dr Christopher Howard Sworn since 2013
- James Crawford Aitkenhead since 2026
- James Lewis since 2019
- Stephen Nottridge since 2019
- Simon Gerrard since 2024
- Tharmananthar Shankaradhas since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Dedunu Samudrika De Silva since 2020
- Dr Christopher Howard Sworn since 2013
- James Lewis since 2019
- Stephen Nottridge since 2019
- Tharmananthar Shankaradhas since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- REG Perrins Chair
- Carol Birch
- Christopher Mckinney
- Dedunu Samudrika De Silva since 2020
- James Lewis since 2019
- Stephen Nottridge since 2019
- Simon Gerrard since 2024
- Tharmananthar Shankaradhas since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Danielle Jane Young since 2024
- Dr Christopher Howard Sworn since 2013
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1074011
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 NOVEMBER 1998
- Companies House
- Company number 03672087 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01162739763 · headway@headwayleicester.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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