BOWEL CANCER UK

Registered charity 1071038 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q43895101 · also known as BOWEL CANCER CONCERN, COLON CANCER CONCERN, THE BOWEL CANCER CHARITY · also registered in Scotland as SC040914 (OSCR)

Bowel Cancer UK aims to save lives and improve the quality of life for all those affected by bowel cancer.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE, SUPPORT AND /OR CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, CURE AND EFFECTS OF BOWEL CANCER AND OTHER LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL CONDITIONS (TOGETHER “BOWEL CANCER”) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;(B) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE TO PEOPLE AFFECTED BY BOWEL CANCER AND/OR TO THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS;(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS ON THE ISSUES RELATING TO BOWEL CANCER;(D) TO PROMOTE AND INFLUENCE EFFECTIVE CARE AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY BOWEL CANCER AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF THEIR CARERS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN THEIR SUPPORT; AND(E) THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£6.6m

Latest spending

£7.2m

Registered

1998

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £642,675 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting from total income of £6,573,027 against expenditure of £7,215,702. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position with free reserves of £1,319,453 and liquid cash reserves of £3.6m, with no borrowing, supporting a going concern basis. The charity maintains its free reserves within the stated target range of £1,200,000 – £1,500,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £1,200,000 – £1,500,000 (held: £1.3m)

“The current target level for free reserves is £1,200,000 – £1,500,000.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales; Financial Conduct Authority; Homes England; Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW); Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education); Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
Complaints handling
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
Investment
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 444
Employees paid over £60,000: 9 (£60,001–£70,000: 4; £70,001–£80,000: 1; £80,001–£90,000: 3; £140,001–£150,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 101
Employees paid over £60,000: 6 (£60,001–£70,000: 1; £80,001–£90,000: 4; £130,001–£140,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 50
Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (£70,001–£80,000: 4; £130,001–£140,000: 1)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Bowel cancer UK launches new programme to drive earlier diagnosis itv.com · 02/11/2026
Charity netball tournament raises almost £5,000 for Bowel Cancer UK northantstelegraph.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Family take on Edinburgh Kiltwalk in young mum’s memory to raise vital funds for Bowel Cancer UK - The NEN nen.press · 11/09/2026
Bio&Me launches co-branded Bowel Cancer UK packs foodanddrinktechnology.com · 02/09/2026
M&S launch beans and pulses campaign with Bowel Cancer UK fruitnet.com · 10/07/2026
M&S Launches Better With Beans With Bowel Cancer UK as it Transforms Beans and Pulses Range to Help Customers Eat More Fibre corporate.marksandspencer.com · 07/07/2026
Bio&Me partners with Bowel Cancer UK to raise £100,000 conveniencestore.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Dame Deborah James saved countless lives raising awareness - Bowel Cancer UK bbc.co.uk · 28/06/2022

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bowel Cancer UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Andrex — “Together with Andrex®, we’re helping the nation to ‘Get Comfortable’ talking about toilet habits and encouraging people to seek help if they…” (source page)
Bio&Me — “Together, we're helping more people understand the important role diet and fibre play in reducing the risk of bowel cancer. Through awarenes…” (source page)
Alpha Laboratories — “As the longest-standing providers of tests to the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programmes, Alpha Laboratories have always shared our visi…” (source page)
Fletchers Solicitors — “We’re proud to partner with Fletchers Solicitors, their specialist teams are committed to supporting people affected by bowel cancer. With t…” (source page)
Irwin Mitchell — “We're proud to have partnered with Irwin Mitchell to support people affected by bowel cancer. Thanks to their contribution, our annual NCCNN…” (source page)
Survey Engine — “We're working with SurveyEngine because we both understand how crucial patient insights and voices are for improving treatments. Together, w…” (source page)
Travis Perkins Managed Services — “We’re proud to have partnered with Travis Perkins Managed Services, a leading UK supply chain and procurement partner. The team are raising …” (source page)

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£6.6m

Total spending

£7.2m

Cost of raising funds

£2.5m

Reserves (reported)

£1.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (17/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (05/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (05/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (29/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Damien Marmionchair
Amit Kotecha
Benjamin Butler
Dr Alastair McKinlay · trustee of 1 other charity
Duncan Rudkin
Husna Grimes
Lindsey Bowser
Michelle Thompson
Owen Watson
Paul Latham
Tim Kerr

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£6.6m	£7.2m
31/12/2024	£6.6m	£9.3m
31/12/2023	£7.1m	£6.1m
31/12/2022	£6.3m	£4.8m
31/12/2021	£5.3m	£3.5m

Common questions

Is BOWEL CANCER UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £642,675 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting from total income of £6,573,027 against expenditure of £7,215,702. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position with free reserves of £1,319,453 and liquid cash reserves of £3.6m, with no borrowing, supporting a going concern basis. The charity maintains its free reserves within the stated target range of £1,200,000 – £1,500,000. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds BOWEL CANCER UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BOWEL CANCER UK as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, THE FRANCES AND AUGUSTUS NEWMAN FOUNDATION, THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION, THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST, E B M CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	FY2025	£391k	Health and Wellbeing
THE FRANCES AND AUGUSTUS NEWMAN FOUNDATION	FY2023	£225k	Research costs
THE HSWJ TRUST	FY2025	Unverified read£107k
CHRISTOS LAZARI FOUNDATION	FY2022	Unverified read£82k	Funding towards bowel cancer research programmes focusing in understanding the disease, how it is diagnosed and treated, as well as providing support to people
THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION	FY2023	£43k
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2024	£25k	Term Funding
E B M CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£25k
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2022	£25k	TERM FUNDING
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2023	£25k	Term Funding
THE MACDONALD-BUCHANAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k
THE MACDONALD-BUCHANAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£20k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k	Grant paid to institution
E B M CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£20k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS, FULHAM	FY2023	£15k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£15k
THE HSWJ TRUST	FY2024	£15k
THE HSWJ TRUST	FY2021	£15k
QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2021	£10k
TOM AND SHEILA SPRINGER CHARITY	FY2025	£10k
THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k	Care of Cancer Patients
THE VALENTINE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k
MONDAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	Unverified read£10k	Discretionary Grants
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£10k	Cancer Care
PEACOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£9k
PEACOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£9k
PEACOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£9k
PEACOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£9k
LANGDALE TRUST	FY2023	£8k
MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2025	£8k	Grant making
FORT FOUNDATION	FY2022	£8k	Health
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k
FRAZER TRUST	FY2024	£5k	Hospitals and home (and connected activities)
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k
FORT FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k	Health
FORT FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k	Health
THE PHILIP OPPENHEIMER FOUNDATION	FY2022	£5k
THE SIMON GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£5k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO	FY2021	£5k
THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2023	£5k	Health
THE CHARLES AND ELSIE SYKES TRUST	FY2025	£5k	Towards Dr Dobson and Dr Wood's research addressing bowel cancer equalities at Newcastle University.
FORT FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k	Health
THE SIMON GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k
FORT FOUNDATION	FY2023	£5k	Health
THE LIGHT FUND COMPANY	FY2023	£5k
THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k	Health and Welfare
THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k	Health and Welfare
TOM AND SHEILA SPRINGER CHARITY	FY2023	£4k
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£4k	Charitable Donation

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/04/2022	£10k	Chat Together
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/01/2015	£10k	Bowel cancer information resources for younger patients
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/08/2013	£10k	Bowel Cancer Awareness Volunteers
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/06/2013	£10k	Bowel Cancer Awareness Volunteers
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/07/2012	£7k	Good Bowel Health - A Resource for People with Learning Difficulties
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/03/2006	£179k	Prevention & symptom awareness of Colorectal/Bowel Cancer programme.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE LORD FARINGDON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£11k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£8k
THE WILLIE AND MABEL MORRIS CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£3k
SSP FOUNDATION	2	£3k
BELVEDERE TRUST	2	£2k
OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£340k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£99k
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY	1	£98k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOWEL CANCER WEST.

BOWEL CANCER WEST income £45k
BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED income £2.1m
COMBAT CANCER income £50k
BLOOD CANCER ALLIANCE income £119k
Bowel Research UK income £1.6m
FIGHT BLADDER CANCER income £603k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BOWEL CANCER UK	£6.6m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
BOWEL CANCER WEST FY2025	£45k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED FY2025	£2.1m	—	0	above	17.7%	no doubt
COMBAT CANCER FY2025	£50k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BLOOD CANCER ALLIANCE FY2025	£119k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
Bowel Research UK FY2025	£1.6m	more than £60,000	1	above	21.5%	no doubt

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