CLIC SARGENT CANCER CARE FOR CHILDREN

Registered charity 1107328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5012753 · Wikipedia · also known as CLIC SARGENT, Young Lives vs Cancer · also registered in Scotland as SC039857 (OSCR)

Young Lives vs Cancer (the working name of CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children) is there for children and young people with cancer and their families, responding to their individual needs and caring through treatment and beyond. We provide emotional,practical and financial support, and take what beneficiaries tell us about the impact of cancer on their lives to help change things for the better.

Objects

3.1 TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF, CARE, WELL-BEING AND REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH ANY FORM OF CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES;3.2 TO PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC AND RECUPERATIVE CARE AND ASSISTANCE TO ANY PERSON IN NEED THEREOF WHO RECEIVES OR HAS RECEIVED CARE OR ASSISTANCE OF ANY KIND FROM THE CHARITY WHILST A CHILD OR YOUNG PERSON OR WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER WHILST A CHILD OR A YOUNG PERSON AND TO PROVIDE CARE AND ASSISTANCE TO ANY SUCH PERSON'S IMMEDIATE FAMILY, BEING IN NEED;3.3 TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND PUBLISH ANY USEFUL RESULTS INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CANCER IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;3.4 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONALLY.

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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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £747,000 for the year, resulting in a reduction of its cash position by £2.4 million. Free reserves stood at £6.3 million, which the trustees consider appropriate and within their stated policy range of £5.0 million to £8.0 million. The trustees concluded that the charity has adequate resources 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Youth performing arts group to perform charity concert in Northampton for Young Lives vs Cancer northamptonchron.co.uk · 13/04/2022

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CLIC SARGENT PROMOTIONS LIMITED Companies House 00957520
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05273638
• Trading subsidiary: CLIC SARGENT DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Companies House 09106476
• Trading subsidiary: CLIC SARGENT LOTTERY LIMITED Companies House 10791106

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.

• MORRIS, Helen Avril — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• ASHBY, Alexander — director, appointed 01/10/2025not on trustee list
• KENDREW, Emma Louise — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• MILLS, Corrine Suzanne — director, appointed 26/03/2025not on trustee list
• BAKER, Simeon Scott — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• MPHANZA, David — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Kevin — director, appointed 30/03/2023on trustee list
• BLACKMORE, Sarah — director, appointed 30/03/2023on trustee list
• FARAG, Daniel — director, appointed 30/03/2023on trustee list
• HASLAM, David Antony, Sir — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• KITABI, Farrah — director, appointed 24/09/2019on trustee list
• GODSON, Emily Jane Alice — secretary, appointed 25/09/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold); recorded price paid £2.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (98,675 followers) · instagram (33K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 42.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir David Haslamchair
• Alex Ashby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Corinne Mills
• Daniel Farag
• David Mphanza
• Emma Kendrew
• Farrah Kitabi
• Helen Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Ronald Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Anne Blackmore
• Simeon Baker

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• CHILDREN WITH CANCER FUND (POLEGATE) income £260k
• THE CHRIS AKED FOUNDATION income £69k
• CARING FOR LIFE income £4.8m
• SHEFFIELD YOUNG CARERS PROJECT income £647k
• WINCHESTER & DISTRICT YOUNG CARERS income £155k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.