HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION

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  8 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the parent charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. HEADWAY - THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION · parent
   1. Headway Retail Limited 100% · England and Wales · acts as an agent in selling donated goods on behalf of the charity and conducts, as principal, the trading activity of selling greeting cards and other merchandise
   2. 190 Bagnall Road Properties Limited 100% · England and Wales · hold property used by the group companies

Significant events

• “In August, the charity launched a new five-year strategy having conducted a comprehensive consultation exercise involving brain injury survivors, carers and family members, the network of local Headway charities and branches, professionals working in the field of brain injury, and other key stakeholders.”
• “Headway held its second annual Network Day in London in October.”
• “the charity successfully launched the Community of Headway Trustees, with 104 trustees from across the network involved.”
• “A key project in 2024, was the North Wales Police Pilot Project, which integrates the Headway Brain Injury Identity Card with a Police Unique Reference Number (URN).”
• “In May, Headway launched its ABI Week awareness campaign. The campaign, A Life Re-written, illustrated how brain injury can affect anyone at any time, focussing particularly on how it throws plans into disarray, changes life goals, and even the sense of who we are.”
• “In May, ahead of the General Election, the charity launched its first ever manifesto, From Awareness to Action: Demanding Better Care for People Affected by Brain Injury.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

8

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.1%

  £6,041,207 → £6,107,565

• Cash

  -5.7%

  £4,429,350 → £4,177,276

• Net assets

  -2%

  £6,211,220 → £6,085,248

• Employees

  +11%

  146 → 162

• Wages

  +15.9%

  £2,852,284 → £3,306,010

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers