CANCER COMMUNITY CHEST

Registered charity 1052449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide holidays, respite care, amenities or equipment to those suffering from cancer or other disease, injuries, infirmities, or disabilities of a life threatening or otherwise debilitating or incapacitating nature affecting their quality of life.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF FROM SICKNESS AND FOR THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND, IN PARTICULAR, FOR THE RELIEF FROM SICKNESS OF SUFFERERS FROM CANCER OR OTHER DISEASES, INJURIES, INFIRMITIES OR DISABILITIES OF A LIFE-THREATENING OR OTHERWISE DEBILITATING OR INCAPACITATING NATURE OR SERIOUSLY AND ADVERSELY AFFECTING OR CAPABLE OF SO AFFECTING THEIR RESPECTIVE LENGTH OR QUALITY OF LIFE (TOGETHER WITH OR WITHOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE SPOUSES, CO-HABITEES, RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND/OR DEPENDANTS) BY PROVIDING OR PROCURING TO BE PROVIDED, ARRANGING OR ASSISTING IN OR FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF, HOLIDAYS AND RESPITE, RECUPERATIVE OR HOSPICE CARE (INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY, OCCASIONAL, MEDIUM-/LONG-TERM OR PERMANENT ACCOMMODATION OF ALL KINDS AND OTHER INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY SERVICES OR FACILITIES) FOR THE RELIEF OF ALL SUCH PERSONS AND BY PROVIDING OR PROCURING TO BE PROVIDED, ARRANGING, OR ASSISTING IN OR FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF, RECREATIONAL OR LEISURE ACITIVITIES, TRIPS/OUTINGS, AMENITIES, SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR AND DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF ALL SUCH PERSONS, AND, FURTHER, FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMPRISING SUCH SUFFERERS (TOGETHER WITH OR WITHOUT THEIR RESPECIVE SPOUSES, CO-HABITEES, RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND/OR DEPENDENTS) AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH SUCH SUFFERERS MAY FOR THE TIME BEING RESPECIVELY LIVE, WORK OR RESIDE WHETHER TEMPORARILY, PERMANENTLY OR OCCASIONALLY IN ANY SUCH CASE AFORESAID WITHOUT DISTINCTION AS REGARDS AGE, RACE, SEX, LIFE-STYLE, MARITAL OR OTHER STATUS, BELIEFS OR CREED

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR EAST ANGLIA AND PRIMARILY NORFOLK

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broadland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds (deficit) of £22,378 for the year ended 30th June 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £37,564. The trustees confirmed that the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis and that no audit was carried out due to small company exemptions. The charity is staffed by unpaid volunteers and relies on shop sales, donations, and recycling for income.

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 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 92 days after the 30/04/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS C BUCHANANchair
• Edward Graham Jones
• Ena Joan Purling
• Hilary Joan Last
• MARY PATRICIA HENDRIE
• MRS M SMITH
• PEARL LESLEY ELVIN
• Sandra Mckenzie Thynne
• Susan Pope

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARLIES COMMUNITY SUPPORT.

• CHARLIES COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £183k
• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• MISSION REMISSION income £101k
• SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED income £310k
• TOGETHER AGAINST CANCER income £508k
• CAMBRIDGE CANCER HELP CENTRE income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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