Wessex Cancer Support

Registered charity 1110216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESSEX CANCER TRUST

Through its four support centres, Wessex Cancer Support provides free, local and personalised emotional support to anyone affected by cancer in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. Clients may have cancer themselves, be adjusting to life after cancer or supporting someone with cancer.

Objects

For the public benefit to assist in the treatment and care of persons affected by cancer, the provision support, education and practical advice, including raising funds to; complement and improve cancer care services by supporting patients, families and carers; providing education and information for patients, families and professionals; promoting cancer prevention; mainly throughout Wessex including Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands

Area of benefit: WESSEX.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £645,967 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by total costs of £2,130,997 against income of £1,394,287. Per the trustees' report, the financial position remains stable due to the use of designated reserves, with free reserves held at £1.2m which is marginally ahead of the stated policy target of £0.7m - £1.0m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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.

• 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).

• Retired nurse celebrates her 70th at Portsmouth Deaf Centre and raises over £1000 for Rowans Hospice and Wessex Cancer Trust portsmouth.co.uk · 30/06/2022

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WESSEX CANCER SUPPORT TRADING LTD Companies House 02729745
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05416311

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wessex Cancer Support (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.

• SPENDER, Steven Joseph — director, appointed 10/08/2026on trustee list
• MARTIN, Daniel Graham Thurston — director, appointed 07/07/2026on trustee list
• TURNBULL-KIRK, Shona Marie — director, appointed 11/06/2026on trustee list
• PLUMTREE, Jonathan — director, appointed 08/04/2022on trustee list
• JONES, Timothy John Alexander — director, appointed 06/10/2021not on trustee list
• MILES, Martin Terence — director, appointed 01/12/2020on trustee list
• CUTLER, Diane — director, appointed 13/05/2020on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, David Morton — secretary, appointed 03/05/2022

Official officers record.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 64.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Cutlerchair
• Anthony Neale Coombes
• Daniel Martin
• Jonathan Plumtree
• Martin Miles
• Shona Marie Turnbull-Kirk
• Steven Joseph Spender
• Tim Jones

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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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 CANCERWISE.

• CANCERWISE income £146k
• SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED income £310k
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THERAPY CENTRE (WESSEX) LIMITED income £398k
• ROMSEY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE income £409k
• CANCER INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £241k
• BEECHWOOD CANCER CARE CENTRE income £974k

Side by side with its peers

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