Welcome to the
Child Brain Injury Trust
Every 15 minutes, a child in the UK sustains a brain injury.
By age 17, 1 in 30 children will have experienced a childhood-acquired brain injury. When this life-changing event affects your family, you shouldn't have to face the journey alone.
The Child Brain Injury Trust is the UK's premier charity dedicated to childhood-acquired brain injury support. For over 30 years, we've been the trusted voice providing comprehensive resources and advocacy for families navigating paediatric brain injury recovery.
Whether you're dealing with traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumours, or other neurological conditions in children, our team provides evidence-based information and practical tools to support your child's development and your family's well-being.
Expert Support When You Need It Most
From initial diagnosis through long-term recovery, we stand with families affected by childhood brain injury. Our network of support ensures no child or family faces the challenges of brain injury alone.
Our services include
- Family support services: Emotional guidance from experienced professionals who understand your journey
- Legal and financial guidance: Connecting families with expert advice on compensation claims and benefits
- Professional training: Equipping healthcare workers, teachers, and caregivers with essential knowledge
How to Support us
Join our mission to transform lives
Every person's support makes a meaningful difference in the lives of children with brain injuries. Whether you're inspired to join our awareness campaigns, ready to tackle your own fundraising adventure, looking to engage your workplace in corporate partnership, or considering how to create a lasting legacy through planned giving, there are countless ways to stand with us in this vital work.
Your involvement, no matter how you choose to contribute, directly impacts our ability to provide life-changing support services, develop innovative resources, and ensure no family faces childhood-acquired brain injury alone. Together, we're building a future where every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential after a brain injury.
Legal Support Service
When a child sustains a brain injury, families often face a maze of legal and practical challenges. From benefits and compensation to employment rights and long-term care, having the right legal guidance is essential.
The Child Brain Injury Trust has built a trusted network of regional legal partnerships across England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. These firms understand the life-changing impact of childhood-acquired brain injury and are dedicated to supporting families with compassion and expertise.
Whether you need advice on welfare benefits, help pursuing a claim, or clarity about your rights at work, our Legal Support Service ensures you can access the right support quickly.
Our story
The Child Brain Injury Trust was founded in 1991, when a small group of health professionals came together with a shared concern: how does a 'traumatic' injury affect a child’s developing brain, and what can be done to help?
As their work grew, parents of children with acquired brain injury joined the conversation. They brought lived experience, passion, and determination, and soon helped shape the charity into something much bigger than research alone. Families wanted more than facts, they needed guidance, understanding, and a community that could walk alongside them.
From those beginnings, the Child Brain Injury Trust has grown into the leading voluntary sector organisation in the UK supporting families affected by childhood-acquired brain injury. Today, we provide not only information, but also emotional and practical support, legal and educational guidance, and learning opportunities for professionals.
What started as a question has become a mission: to ensure no family faces the journey of childhood-acquired brain injury alone.
Your Donation Changes Lives
Acquired brain injury can happen to any child, at any moment, and when it does, it changes everything for the whole family.
The Child Brain Injury Trust is here to make sure no child or family faces the journey of acquired brain injury alone.
Get in touch
We're here to help, whether you have questions about our services, want to get involved as a supporter, or are looking for guidance on childhood brain injury. Contact our friendly team today. We'd love to hear from you and explore how we can work together to make a difference.
