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Ourbrainbank

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1184699LondonHealth and saving lives
Income£29k2025-12-31
Spending£17ksame year
Spent / received46%5-year average
Size in its cause44th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2019CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Ourbrainbank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Ourbrainbank reported income of £29k and spending of £17k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £33k to £29k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 356%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ourbrainbank sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Help Humanity UK (£29k), Coventry and Warwickshire Kidney Patients Association (£29k) and Bread and Water for Africa UK (£29k).

Income and spending

£0£21k£42k£63k£85k2021 Income: £33,0402021 Spending: £2,80220212022 Income: £18,5672022 Spending: £20,05820222023 Income: £84,6002023 Spending: £26,52020232024 Income: £27,7112024 Spending: £20,93920242025 Income: £28,7862025 Spending: £17,2762025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

OurBrainBank is an an innovative, patient-led movement designed to move glioblastoma (GBM) from terminal to treatable, powered by patients. It's the first non-profit created by, for, and with people with GBM, a rare and deadly brain cancer whose 5-year survival rate is 5%. Our Founder and Chair, Jessica Morris, a British national living in the US, was disgnosed with GBM in January 2016.

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