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Registered charity · Ipswich

Brave Futures

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £881k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Where
Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
bravefutures.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brave Futures
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£881k£886k
  • 2024£740k£789k
  • 2023£622k£643k
Earlier years
  • 2022£558k£576k
  • 2021£654k£463k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 57%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN PARTICULAR THOSE CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF 18 YEARS WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM SEXUAL ABUSE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT.THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN PARTICULAR ADULTS WHO ARE SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT.THE RELIEF OF PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF 18 YEARS WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM SEXUAL ABUSE BY PROVIDING ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND EDUCATION PROGRAMMES TO ENABLE THEM TO UNDERSTAND AND HELP OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE CHILDREN IN THEIR CARE.TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM SEXUAL BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS ARISING FROM LIFE EXPERIENCES BY ACTING AS A RESOURCE FOR THE TREATMENT OF THOSE CHILDREN.

Grants received

92 grants · £1,677,825 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

Board analysis

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

10
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 11

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

Health and social care 12Professional services 3Arts and leisure 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£881k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.4 in 2021

22 from 20 in 2021
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
1149347
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08/10/2012 AS AMENDED ON 26 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 JUL 2018 as amended on 19 Sep 2018 as amended on 26 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 08128922 · Active
Contact on the register
01473353355 · admin@bravefutures.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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