THE SICKLE CELL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1046631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Information, counselling, caring and advocacy support for those with sickle cell disorders and their families.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE:(1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE;(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG MEMBERS OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY OF PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING, OR WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THEIR DEATH, SUFFERED FROM SICKLE CELL DISEASE;(3) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR SUCH PERSONS AND FOR SUCH IMMEDIATE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES HAVING NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS;(4) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE BY CARRYING OUT OR ASSISTING IN CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND TREATMENT OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND TO DISSEMINATE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The Sickle Cell Society reported a small surplus of £141 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £1,181,362 and total expenditure of £1,181,221. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £868,574, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining three months of unrestricted expenditure (£181,210). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sickle Cell Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (37% 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: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claudette Allerdyce
• Dr Kilali Basoene Ominu-Evbota
• Dr Matthew Sowemino
• Julia McLarty
• Lisett Brown
• Lorraine Mattis
• Vinice Thomas
• Zainab Garba-Sani

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 THE MACULAR DISEASE SOCIETY.

• THE MACULAR DISEASE SOCIETY income £8.9m
• CROYDON SICKLE CELL AND THALASSAEMIA SUPPORT GROUP income £26k
• SICKLE CELL CARE MANCHESTER income £88.9m
• CdLS Foundation UK & Ireland income £54k
• THE CELLAR SHOP income £44k
• THE ISLES OF SCILLY MEDICAL CENTRE TRUST income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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