THE CHALLENGE FUND - THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER IN THE EMERGING WORLD

Registered charity 1079181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHALLENGE FUND, INCTR CHALLENGE FUND

Providing support to help build capacity for cancer registration, cancer care and research and, the relief of suffering of cancer patients in low- and mid-income countries. For more information please visit www.challengefund.org

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE, AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE UNDERTAKING OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF CANCER PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATED2) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT CANCER

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £4,272, which the trustees consider higher than the three-month policy target of £200. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, with total income of £290,400 against total expenditure of £328,904, resulting in a net expenditure of £38,504.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2025 (received 08/01/2026, 11 days after the 28/12/2025 due date); year ending 29/02/2024 (received 11/02/2025, 44 days after the 29/12/2024 due date); year ending 28/02/2023 (received 16/04/2024, 110 days after the 28/12/2023 due date); year ending 28/02/2022 (received 12/05/2023, 135 days after the 28/12/2022 due date); year ending 28/02/2021 (received 31/12/2021, 3 days after the 28/12/2021 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

• Professor Sir Walter Fred Bodmerchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• Charles Mark Lodge
• Dr ANNA ZOFIA STEFANIA ROHATINER MD FRCP
• Dr Anne Makeba
• Dr DONALD MAXWELL PARKIN
• GEOFFREY NIBLETT

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

Operates in: Benin · Botswana · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Chad · Congo · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Gabon · Ghana · Guinea · Ivory Coast

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 COST OF CANCER.

• COST OF CANCER income £24k
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• CAMBRIDGE CANCER HELP CENTRE income £67k
• WORLD CANCER CARE income £66k
• NEATH PORT TALBOT CANCER CHALLENGE income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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