THE INSTITUTE FOR CANCER VACCINES AND IMMUNOTHERAPY

Registered charity 1080343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CVI, THE CANCER VACCINE INSTITUTE LIMITED

The principal activity of the charity is the advancement of education and the protection and preservation of public health by promoting research into the treatment of cancer by vaccine technology and by promoting the dissemination of the useful results of such research.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH BY PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE TREATMENT OF CANCER BY VACCINE TECHNOLOGY, AND BY PROMOTING THE DISSEMINATION OF THE 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £122,083 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £993,795. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £852,749, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover committed operating costs and provide flexibility for temporary shortfalls in fundraising revenues. The charity maintains its reserves in cash or cash equivalents to maintain short-term capital value amid market uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bryden Johnson Limited. 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 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~29.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 13.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir HENRY RICHARD GEERS COTTERELL Bt OBEchair
• ALEXANDER CHARLES JOHNS
• GUY EDMUND SANGSTER
• JEMMA KATE NATASHA FREEMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• RESHMA ASHRAF TAYLOR
• Saffron Emily Rankin Guy

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.

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL CANCER IMAGING SOCIETY.

• INTERNATIONAL CANCER IMAGING SOCIETY income £186k
• CANCER AWARENESS TRUST income £1.1m
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• THE NUCLEAR INSTITUTE income £1.4m
• NATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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