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Registered charity · Burgess Hill

The Disabilities Trust

To relieve the needs of people with developmental, learning, physical or acquired disabilities or conditions, in particular but not exclusively by the provisions of care, special housing units, facilities and supported living services.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £75m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.brainkind.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Disabilities Trust
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£75m£82m
  • 2024£61m£67m
  • 2023£67m£55m
Earlier years
  • 2022£53m£57m
  • 2021£52m£51m
Charitable objects

To relieve the needs of people with developmental, learning, physical or acquired disabilities or conditions, in particular but not exclusively by the provisions of care, special housing units, facilities and supported living services.

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.

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 10Disability 10Education/training 10

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 15Professional services 3Business services 1

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£74.9m 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.3 in 2021

1800 from 1576 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.
94%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
800797
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/01/1989NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27/09/2010 as amended on 21 Dec 2019 as amended on 13 Jul 2020
Companies House
Company number 02334589 · Active
Contact on the register
01444239123 · info@brainkind.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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