CANCER AID FOR NORTH/EAST (SRI LANKA)

Registered charity 1044299 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANE

The principal activity of the company continues to be that of promotion of relief for persons suffering from cancer in North and East of Sri Lanka.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER (2) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO WAYS TO PREVENT DETECT AND TREAT CANCER

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE NORTH EAST SRI LANKA

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

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Registered contact address: Harrow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a surplus of £16,332 for the year ended 30 November 2025, bringing total funds to £149,548. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of twelve months' unrestricted expenditure and report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue. The financial position is supported by unrestricted funds of £125,862 and restricted funds of £23,686.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2023 (received 01/10/2024, 1 day after the 30/09/2024 due date); year ending 30/11/2022 (received 05/12/2023, 66 days after the 30/09/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CANE (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr PARARASASEKARAN THAYALASEKARANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JAYENDRAN NAMASIVAYAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr KAMALADEVI ARUNASALAM
• Ghandhimathy Sooriyakumar · trustee of 1 other charity
• KANAGARASA DIVAHARAN
• MAHESWARAN SRI RAGAVAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR Gridharan Wijayasingam
• MURUGESU THANGARAJAH
• RAMANI VAHEESAN
• SHANTHINI THAYALASEKARAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• VELUPPILLAI SIVASUNDRAM

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

Operates in: Sri Lanka · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER.

• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED income £310k
• CARE SRI LANKA income £76k
• KARUVI (SRDA) - UK income £27k
• FIREFLY CANCER AWARENESS AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £624k
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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