THE MULBERRY CENTRE

Registered charity 1108999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Mulberry Cancer Support

Walk-in cancer centre offering support and information services to all people affected by cancer.

Objects

4. THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:4(1) THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT, WHETHER PRACTICAL, EMOTIONAL, MEDICAL OR FINANCIAL OF:(A) PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER (‘PATIENTS’)(B) THE FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF PATIENTS(C) THE FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF DECEASED PATIENTS.4 (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC (INCLUDING MEDICAL AND OTHER PRACTITIONERS) IN:(A) THE CAUSES OF CANCER, ITS PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE(B) THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PATIENTS(C) THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF THE FAMILIES, THE DEPENDANTS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF PATIENTS.4 (3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE ISLEWORTH, HOUNSLOW, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, EALING, MIDDLESEX.

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

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

Registered contact address: Hounslow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a financial deficit of £85,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, which was funded from cash reserves. Per the trustees' report, free reserves have decreased to £133,000, representing 2.3 months of operational expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months. The trustees acknowledge that the current position is not sustainable over the longer term and have implemented staffing reductions to reduce the cost base.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mulberry Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Hounslow Council — “Thanks to the ongoing funding from Hounslow Council, we are also able to extend some of our services to anyone who has a chronic illness and…” (source page)

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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 32.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aileen Murraychair
• Christopher David Bezant
• Dalvinder Randhawa
• Dr Gayatri Shah
• Dr Jacqueline Florence Sinclair
• Heather Loyce Scott Taylor
• Jacqueline Docherty
• Nigel Peter George
• Nina Manpareet Kaur Singh
• Paul James Hugh Dunn
• Philip Richard Martin
• Piers Ronald Allen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ealing · Hounslow · Richmond Upon Thames

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• PEMBROKESHIRE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP income £40k
• PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION income £635k
• THE MULBERRY BUSH ORGANISATION LTD income £8.0m
• CANCERWISE income £146k
• CHARLIES COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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