Common questions about Headway - the Brain Injury Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Headway - the Brain Injury Association a good charity? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association scores 74 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 45% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Headway - the Brain Injury Association a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Headway - the Brain Injury Association as a registered charity (charity number 1025852). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1025852&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Headway - the Brain Injury Association's charity number? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association's charity number is 1025852. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Headway - the Brain Injury Association's charity rating? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association scores 74 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Headway - the Brain Injury Association have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Headway - the Brain Injury Association. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Headway - the Brain Injury Association? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 45% of Headway - the Brain Injury Association's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Headway - the Brain Injury Association's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 55% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 56% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Headway - the Brain Injury Association. Headway - the Brain Injury Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Headway - the Brain Injury Association receive? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association reported £6.0m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Headway - the Brain Injury Association's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Headway - the Brain Injury Association based? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association's registered contact address is in Nottingham (NG6 8SF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, with a focus on disability.
How much is Headway - the Brain Injury Association's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Headway - the Brain Injury Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Headway - the Brain Injury Association's money come from? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association reported £6m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £3.9m (65%), donations and legacies £1.4m (24%), charitable activities £634k (10%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £214k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Headway - the Brain Injury Association? +
The register records Headway - the Brain Injury Association as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Headway - the Brain Injury Association's trustees paid? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Headway - the Brain Injury Association previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Headway - the Brain Injury Association: Headway National Head Injuries Association Limited.
When was Headway - the Brain Injury Association registered as a charity? +
Headway - the Brain Injury Association was entered on the register on 16 September 1993. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02346893).
How does CharityCompare score Headway - the Brain Injury Association? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Headway - the Brain Injury Association's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Headway - the Brain Injury Association's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.