NORTH WEST LUNG CENTRE

Registered charity 1090320 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting and assisting with the funding of research into lung disease in the North West of England

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE COURSES AND TREATMENT OF HUMAN DISEASES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE SAVE TO THE PUBLIC AND DISTRIBUTION.2) TO ENGAGE IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINES AND GENERAL MEDICINES FOR USE IN CONJUCTION WITH THE TREATMENT REFERRED TO IN 1) ABOVE3) TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY OR RELATED DISEASES

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) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Trafford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group's unrestricted reserves totalled £129,938,522, a significant increase from the previous year's £36,234,558, driven largely by a £90.1 million gain on the revaluation of investments in subsidiary companies. The trustees report that the charity maintains sufficient reserves to support current research, noting that the approach to reserve funds will be tailored to the post-acquisition strategy following the sale of its subsidiaries. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 30/03/2026, 58 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 18/07/2023, 168 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 22/07/2022, 172 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: MEDICINES EVALUATION UNIT LIMITED Companies House 03779957 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03936652
• Trading subsidiary: CRO SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 09157193

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North West Lung Centre Charity Ltd (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.

• SINGH, Sukh Dave, Professor — director, appointed 27/04/2026on trustee list
• BOOTON, Richard, Professor — director, appointed 27/04/2026on trustee list
• PIKE, Malcolm John — director, appointed 27/04/2026on trustee list
• CLARKE, Alan — director, appointed 20/02/2026on trustee list
• HEATLEY, Timothy Graham — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• BAILEY, Richard Charles — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• WOODCOCK, Ashley Arthur, Professor — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• BROWN, Louise Ann, Dr — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• BADRI, Huda, Dr — director, appointed 09/12/2020on trustee list
• VESTBO, Jorgen, Professor — director, appointed 16/04/2018on trustee list
• MURRAY, Clare Suzanne, Dr — director, appointed 12/01/2007on trustee list
• JONES, Andrew Mark, Dr — director, appointed 24/10/2006on trustee list
• MURRAY, Clare Suzanne, Professor — secretary, appointed 01/02/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £460k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~97.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (94% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm Pike · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Andrew Mark Jones
• Professor Ashley Woodcock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Clare Suzanne Murray
• Professor Jorgen Vestbo
• Professor Sukh Dave Singh
• RICHARD BAILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Graham Heatley

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WEST FOUNDATION.

• THE WEST FOUNDATION income £77k
• NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH (INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH CCR) income £2.3m
• LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £769k
• WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL TRANSPLANT FUND income £218k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE SOUTH WEST LIMITED income £325k
• WESSEX CARDIAC TRUST income £1.2m

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