WORLD CHILD CANCER UK

Registered charity 1084729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472236 · also known as THE GORDON MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE GORDON MORRISON FAMILY TRUST

In high-income countries over 80% of children who develop cancer survive, but in low-income countries it is often under 30%. World Child Cancer works with local teams and partners in Africa and Asia to redress that inequity to improve quality of care and survival. We provide strategic solutions to diagnosis, access to treatment and holistic care, while advocating for government-led sustainability.

Objects

The objects of the charity (the “objects”) are: (i) to advance health, including by advancing the prevention, diagnosis and cure of any form of cancer or related illness and the treatment and care of persons suffering from such illness or in need of rehabilitation as a result of such illness; (ii) to relieve the hardship of those suffering from any form of cancer or related illness, including the relief of hardship of any dependents or affected family; and (iii) to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to any form of cancer or related illness including through the advancement and dissemination of research, in each case with particular emphasis on children in the developing world.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £405,000 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a significant restricted surplus of £439,000 which offset an unrestricted deficit of £32,000. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £203,000 fell below the Board's target range of £265,000 to £297,000, prompting actions to reduce recurring unrestricted expenditure. The charity remains audited with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 — World Child Cancer (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• World Child Cancer Trustees Limited

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burma · Cameroon · Ghana · Indonesia · Malawi · Nepal · Sierra Leone

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 WORLD CANCER CARE.

• WORLD CANCER CARE income £66k
• Children's Cancer North income £1.0m
• THE CHALLENGE FUND - THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER IN THE EMERGING WORLD income £290k
• WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND income £11.9m
• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK income £17.6m

Side by side with its peers

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