CANCER AID MERTHYR TYDFIL LTD

Registered charity 1101769 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANCER AID MERTHYR LTD

Cancer Aid Merthyr Tydfil provides free services to those whose lives have been touched by cancer living within the Merthyr Tydfil Borough. Services include, transport to and from hospital and to our centre where we provide counselling and complementary therapy.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY CANCER WITHIN THE MERTHYR BOROUGH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICE NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: MERTHYR BOROUGH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £22,740 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees report that unrestricted reserves remain at £568,201, which they consider sufficient to maintain two years of running costs despite being slightly short of their specific policy target.

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 5 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04899059 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cancer Aid Merthyr Tydfil (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.

• HAXTON, Sharon Lynnette — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Pauline — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• GUNTER, Alan — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• QUINLAN, Karina — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• THOMAS, Colin — director, appointed 05/04/2023on trustee list
• REES, Gail — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
• PRITCHARD, Anthony Jonathan — director, appointed 12/08/2019on trustee list

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Gunter
• Anthony Pritchard
• COLIN THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gail Rees
• Karina Quinlan
• Pauline Griffiths
• Sharon Haxton

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

Operates in: Merthyr Tydfil

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTARY ACTION MERTHYR TYDFIL.

• VOLUNTARY ACTION MERTHYR TYDFIL income £1.1m
• MERTHYR TYDFIL LEISURE TRUST LIMITED income £4.2m
• SAFER MERTHYR TYDFIL LIMITED income £2.8m
• CANCER SUPPORT YORKSHIRE income £387k
• THE MULBERRY CENTRE income £645k
• MERTHYR TYDFIL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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