ELLEN MACARTHUR CANCER TRUST

Registered charity 1096491 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ELLEN MACARTHUR TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC044013 (OSCR)

The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust takes young people sailing to help them regain their confidence, on their way to recovery from cancer, leukaemia and other serious illness.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £484,670 for the year, with free reserves amounting to £1,202,814. The Trustees consider the liquidity position to be 8.5 months of budgeted expenditure, which is within their stated policy target of six to nine months. The charity reports 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 Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04597114

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Frank Fletcher — CEO (source)
• Dame Ellen MacArthur — Founder and Patron (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• ELLIS, Vicky Frances — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• ROSS, Jane Michelle — director, appointed 29/11/2024on trustee list
• CUTTLER, Michelle Lynn — director, appointed 15/05/2024on trustee list
• STEVENS, Mark Andrew — director, appointed 08/05/2019on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Emma Louise — director, appointed 24/01/2019on trustee list
• GRINDLEY, Joanne — director, appointed 26/04/2018on trustee list
• PLUVES, Martin — director, appointed 19/01/2017on trustee list
• AMAL, Claire Eleanor — director, appointed 22/09/2014on trustee list
• MACARTHUR, Ellen Patricia, Dame — director, appointed 10/09/2014not on trustee list
• HOBIN, David, Dr — director, appointed 16/11/2011on trustee list
• STEVENS, Mark Andrew — secretary, appointed 13/05/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Amal
• Dame Ellen MacArthur DBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr DAVID HOBIN
• Emma Louise Francis
• JOANNE GRINDLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Ross
• Mark Andrew Stevens
• Martin Pluves
• Michelle Cuttler
• Vicky Frances Ellis

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• TEENAGE CANCER TRUST income £21.1m
• CANCER AWARENESS TRUST income £1.1m
• MACMILLAN CARING LOCALLY income £3.1m
• THE SARA LEE TRUST FUND income £471k
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• SUE YOUNG CANCER SUPPORT IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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