BEECHWOOD CANCER CARE CENTRE

Registered charity 1006015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIVING POSITIVELY LTD, STOCKPORT TERMINAL CARE TRUST

Beechwood Cancer Care Centre aims to provide emotional and psychological support to anyone affected by cancer or other life limiting illnesses. This includes counselling, complementary therapies and group activities. The services delivered are for patients, carers and the wider family members including children.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY AND SUFFERING ARISING THEREFROM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE AREA COVERED BY STOCKPORT HEALTH AUTHORITY AND ADJACENT AREAS.

Area of benefit: AREA COVERED BY STOCKPORT HEALTH AUTHORITY AND ADJACENT AREAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £1.68m are held, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of 12 months of regular expenditure (£800k). The charity reported a net income increase of 72% to £170k, driven by a decrease in total expenditure despite a slight drop in incoming resources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02650841 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beechwood Cancer Care Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HARRISON, Penny Louise — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• EAGLE, Christian Martin — director, appointed 10/02/2022on trustee list
• BEVAN, Peter Joseph — director, appointed 28/04/2020on trustee list
• COOK, Ian Kelvin — director, appointed 08/12/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~25.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (40% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN STEVENSONchair
• Christian Eagle
• Ian Kelvin Cook
• Penny Harrison
• Peter Bevan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANCERCARE (NORTH LANCASHIRE & SOUTH CUMBRIA).

• CANCERCARE (NORTH LANCASHIRE & SOUTH CUMBRIA) income £1.9m
• THE LITTLE CENTRE BEECHWOOD LTD income £224k
• ROMSEY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE income £409k
• WOODLANDS HOSPICE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• Beechwood Architecture Charity income £1.4m
• CANCERWISE income £146k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.