CANCER SUPPORT UK (CSUK)

Registered charity 1105703 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BREAST CANCER PARTNERSHIP, CANCER RECOVERY FOUNDATION UK, CHILDREN'S CANCER RECOVERY PROJECT · also registered in Scotland as SC039731 (OSCR)

CANCER SUPPORT UK* PROVIDES PRACTICAL & EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH CANCER, DURING & AFTER THE TREATMENT PERIOD. WE SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH ALL KINDS OF CANCER ACROSS THE UK. OUR SERVICES, INCL OUR TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUPS & CANCER KITS, ARE DESIGNED & DELIVERED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED CANCER THEMSELVES TO IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS.*Formerly known as Cancer Recovery Foundation

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) IN RELATION TO THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO MEET THE MEDICAL, EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SPIRITUAL AND OTHER NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS AS AN HOLISTIC APPROACH TO PREVENT AND TREAT CANCER; AND2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF CANCER.

Area of benefit: THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to a surplus of £28,149 for the year ended 31 December 2025, increasing net assets to £62,272. The trustees report improved cash reserves of £121,021 and reduced debt obligations, indicating a strengthened financial position. The charity confirms it has sufficient resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05048319

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cancer Support UK (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.

• SUNDBERG, Christine Jeanette, Dr — director, appointed 30/08/2024on trustee list
• MARCUS, Bryan — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list
• DELANEY, Lisa Mary — director, appointed 04/02/2022on trustee list
• DAWSON, Julia Emma — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• YAGANTI, Sarita — director, appointed 25/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bryan Marcus
• Dr Jeanette Sundberg
• Julia Emma Dawson
• Lisa Delaney
• Sarita Yaganti

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CANCER SUPPORT YORKSHIRE income £581k
• SUE YOUNG CANCER SUPPORT IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND income £225k
• CAN-SURVIVE UK income £279k
• Cancer Support Suffolk income £298k
• BABONS CANCER SUPPORT income £107k
• CANCER HELP (PRESTON) LIMITED income £496k

Side by side with its peers

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