THE HOPE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH

Registered charity 1091480 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOPE AGAINST CANCER

The charity raises funds for cancer research in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Objects

(A) THE PROMOTION AND UNDERTAKING OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PROPERTY BIOLOGY DETECTION AND PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER AND TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, (B) THE RELIEF OF PAIN AND SUFFERING OF CANCER PATIENTS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPROVEMENT UPON MEDICAL OR SURGICAL PROCEDURES THROUGH THE STUDY OF CANCER AND ALL ITS RAMIFICATIONS BE THEY CLINICAL, SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC, (C) THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF INNOVATIONS FOR DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER

Area of benefit: NOT SPECIFIED

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: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £195,202 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £1,342,796 to £1,147,594. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds liquid funds of £1,147,594, which the trustees consider appropriate against a reserves policy requiring six months of committed expenditure. The charity is not required to be audited under company law and has undergone an independent examination.

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 6 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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)

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 08/02/2022, 8 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Comrie GREEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Coates
• Ian Guyler
• JAMES ROBERT SPENCER GREENLEES
• Kishani Abeysundera
• Nigel John Brunskill
• Robert Michael James Marsh

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BREAST CANCER HOPE.

• BREAST CANCER HOPE income £56k
• THE HOPE FOUNDATION income £145k
• HOPE FOR TOMORROW income £1.0m
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• CONNECTIONS OF HOPE FOUNDATION income £150k
• HOPE LONDON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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