ORCHID CANCER APPEAL

Registered charity 1080540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q43895062 · also known as ORCHID

Every year over 58,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate, testicular or penile cancer in the UK. Orchid Cancer Appeal supports anyone affected by or interested in male specific cancers through a range of support services led by Male Cancer Information Nurse Specialists, awareness campaigns such as the Orchid Male Cancer Awareness Week, education and training programmes and world class research.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF GENITAL CANCER AND RELATED CONDITIONS

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £83,859 for the year ended 30 September 2025, following total expenditure of £813,495 against income of £729,636. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £94,199, which is below the newly adopted policy target of maintaining nine to twelve months of operating costs (£144,000–£192,000). The trustees noted a degree of uncertainty regarding future donation income but concluded that adequate resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03963360

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHEDDEN, Jeremy — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• COHEN, Warren Harvey — director, appointed 16/05/2016on trustee list
• BADENOCH, David Fraser — director, appointed 12/06/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID BADENOCH
• Jeremy Shedden
• WARREN COHEN

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 PROSTATE CANCER UK.

• PROSTATE CANCER UK income £45.5m
• PROSTAID income £170k
• COLCHESTER HAS ACTIVE PROSTATE SUPPORT income £200k
• PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH income £7.5m
• PCASO PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT ORGANISATION income £186k
• ORCHARDS income £362k

Side by side with its peers

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