Prevent Breast Cancer

Registered charity 1109839 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GENESIS BREAST CANCER PREVENTION APPEAL LIMITED, PREVENT BREAST CANCER LIMITED, THE GENESIS APPEAL COMPANY LIMITED, THE GENESIS APPEAL FOR GENE RESEARCH INTO BREAST CANCER

To fund ground-breaking research into the prediction and prevention of breast cancer. Our four pillars of research are gene research, improved screening & early diagnosis, preventative drugs and diet & lifestyle. Our overall aim is to make breast cancer a preventable disease for our future generations.

Objects

The advancement of health by the prevention of breast cancer for the public benefit worldwide but in particular in the United Kingdom by: - i. Funding research into the causes, prevention, detection and early diagnosis of breast cancer and that the results of the research are promoted and published for the public benefit;ii. Participating in, facilitating or supporting national and international research and development to overcome health inequalities in all aspects of breast cancer prevention among UK ethnic and cultural groups and to disseminate and share output from such programmes to improve breast cancer outcomes for these communities; iii. Informing, raising awareness, so that the public can learn and educate themselves by producing, disseminating and promoting important public health messages about breast cancer risks, symptoms, detection and treatment; iv. Supporting and raising awareness of technological and all other scientific, best practice and diagnostic advancements in breast screening including but not, limited to the support for the National Breast Imaging Academy; v. Providing pastoral services to support patients and their families affected by breast cancer, including but not limited to patient welcoming, orientation, break out spaces and refreshments at the breast screening unit; vi. Advancing all aspects of breast cancer prediction, detection, risk reduction, management, prevention and diagnosis; and vii. Advancing such other aspects of breast cancer prevention as medical and technological advances may recognise and develop in the future, as the trustees in their absolute discretion may determine.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 47% to £2,169,572, resulting in a net income of £643,321. Per the trustees' report, free reserves total £609,202, which equates to over eight months of core operating costs, exceeding the stated policy target of six to nine months. The charity holds significant restricted reserves of £1,553,828, primarily for the National Breast Imaging Academy.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP. 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Prevent Breast Cancer (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lester Barr MBE — Honorary President (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bioderma — “Prevent Breast Cancer will receive a £1 donation for every bottle sold of the Limited Edition Bottle of Sensibio H20 Micellar Water 500ml ex…” (source page)
• Prevent Cancer UK — “In 2025, with Prevent Breast Cancer and other partners, Prevent Cancer UK helped establish the Consortium for Personalised Breast Cancer Pre…” (source page)
• The Tim Bacon Foundation — “Hospitality Helps is an initiative launched by The Tim Bacon Foundation in partnership with Prevent Breast Cancer. Restaurateurs, bars, and …” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eamonn O'Neal OBE DLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTINE LEE-JONES
• Diana Harris
• Dr MARY WILSON
• Jane Humphris
• LESTER BARR
• Mark Sellers
• PAM GLASS
• Paul Topham
• Sandra Saleh
• Tammy Hopla

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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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 AGAINST BREAST CANCER LIMITED.

• AGAINST BREAST CANCER LIMITED income £1.4m
• BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED income £2.1m
• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m
• WOMEN'S CANCER DETECTION SOCIETY income £74k
• BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) income £123k
• BREAST CANCER SUPPORT income £244k

Side by side with its peers

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