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Registered charity · West Midlands

Brake

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.brake.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brake
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.3m£2.6m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.4m
  • 2022£1.7m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.7m£1.4m
  • 2020£1.8m£1.5m
Charitable objects

(I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ISSUES OF ROAD SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY FORMS OF TRANSPORT WITH THE OBJECT OF REDUCING DEATH AND INJURY ON THE ROADS AND REDUCING DAMAGING POLLUTION PARTICULARLY BY - (A) PROMOTING SAFE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ROAD USE;(B) CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO WAYS TO MAKE THE ROADS SAFER AND TO ENABLE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT CHOICES AND DISSEMINATING SUCH RESEARCH(II) HELP PEOPLE BEREAVED OR PHYSICALLY INJURED BY A SUDDEN EVENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES, SO AS TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING

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.

7 trustees on the board

4.8y median 3.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 7Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.6 in 2020

64 from 31 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1093244
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/10/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/2008 as amended on 08 Apr 2026
Companies House
Company number 03260243 · Active
Contact on the register
01484559909 · finance@brake.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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