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Registered charity · London

The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Development Foundation

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.nationalbrainappeal.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Development Foundation
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£4.6m
  • 2024£7.0m£8.2m
  • 2023£4.0m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£2.4m
  • 2021£3.4m£2.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND TO ADVANCE MEDICAL EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS OF MONEY PRIMARILY TO THE NATIONAL HOSPITALS FOR NERVOUS DISEASES BUT ALSO TO ANY OTHER HOSPITAL, INSTITUTION OR ORGANISATION ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND/OR TO ADVANCE MEDICAL EDUCATION AS THE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT THINK FIT

Grants received

6 grants · £2,773,140 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.

13 trustees on the board

3.7y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

13
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Business services 16Health and social care 6Hospitality 4

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£4.2m 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.

9.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.8 in 2021

22 from 11 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
290173
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 AUGUST 1984 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 8 JUNE 1990 AND 13 JULY 1994 AND 11 JANUARY 1996 as amended on 04 Jun 2015
Companies House
Company number 01844281 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3448 4724 · info@nationalbrainappeal.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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