CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST

Registered charity 1079049 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5201207 · Wikipedia · also registered in Scotland as SC040196 (OSCR)

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust works to improve and transform the lives of people with cystic fibrosis by investing in research and its application to patients, driving up standards of clinical care in the NHS, providing information, advice and support for people with cystic fibrosis and their families, campaigning and influencing policy and raising awareness in the media and the general public.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF AND A CURE FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT2) THE CARE, TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS ARE CHARITABLE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CYSTIC FIBROSIS IN ANY FORM AND3) THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £1.8m for the year, funded from unrestricted reserves, bringing retained reserves down to £6.7m. The trustees confirm the organization remains a going concern and maintains reserves within its stated policy target range of £4.0m to £6.5m. Total income decreased to £12.0m from £14.7m in the prior year, while total expenditure fell by 8% to £13.8m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cystic Fibrosis Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Hunt CBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anthony Hunter
• Daniel Beever
• Dr Kerry Jane Rait
• Dr Maya Desai
• Jane Wainwright
• Martin Walshaw
• Michelle Shore
• Neil Priscott
• Nicholas James Elliot
• Peter Boxer
• Sonya Trivedy
• Sophie Pierce

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CYSTIC FIBROSIS CARE.

• CYSTIC FIBROSIS CARE income £269k
• HEARTLANDS CYSTIC FIBROSIS CENTRE income £30k
• CYSTIC FIBROSIS COMFORT FUND income £70k
• CYSTINOSIS FOUNDATION OF THE UK income £34k
• Cysters income £74k
• MYOSITIS UK income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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