CANCER ACTIVE

Registered charity 1102413 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CANCERactive is a charity that exists to provide information from all published scientific sources around the world so that people wanting to beat cancer can make more informed choices.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY FUNDING FOR RESEARCH INTO CANCER AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE

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: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £17,793 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £106,815 to £89,022. The trustees confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity holds free reserves of £89,022, which the trustees note are above their stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of resources expended.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• LARRY BROOKSchair
• Ann Cox
• Benjamin Woollams
• Davina Debidin
• Jonathan Hook
• STEPHANIE Thomas
• Stephen Hutchinson

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Spain · Thailand · United Arab Emirates · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).