CHILDREN WITH CANCER FUND (POLEGATE)

Registered charity 1110644 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CWCF

TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN AND THEIR FAMILIES/CARERS SUFFERING OR RECOVERING FROM CANCER AND CANCER RELATED CONDITIONS, WHO PREDOMINATELY LIVE IN EAST SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON & HOVE, BY GRANTING FEASIBLE WISHES AND PROVIDING EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT TO THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Objects

I) To provide relief and assistance of children up to the age of eighteen and their families/carers suffering or recovering from cancer and cancer related conditions, who predominately live in east Sussex and Brighton & Hove, by granting feasible wishes and providing emotional and practical support to these children and their families. II) To promote the mental health of these children and their families who are or were suffering or recovering from cancer and cancer related conditions, by providing social opportunities, peer support, respite and any other means the trustees think appropriate to reduce isolation and improve their wellbeing.III) Advancing education among medical professionals, carers and the families of these children who are or were suffering or recovering from cancer and cancer related conditions, by any means the trustees think appropriate.

Area of benefit: EAST SUSSEX, BRIGHTON AND HOVE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £36,134 for the year, reducing its total funds from £712,439 to £676,305. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £650,100 (general and designated), which is below the stated policy target of 12 months' operating costs. The trustees note that while income sources vary, regular donations and grants have helped sustain operations despite a decline in some fundraising streams.

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 4 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — Children With Cancer Fund (Polegate) (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER DOWNTON
• Ian Shearer
• JAMES ANDREW DENNY Co-Chair
• Marlene Frances Humphris
• Peter Tony Thomas Co-Chair
• Sylvia Jean Elizabeth Daw
• URSULA FIONA DOWNTON

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK.

• CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK income £17.6m
• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• CANCER RELIEF UK income £229k
• COST OF CANCER income £24k
• CAMBRIDGE CANCER HELP CENTRE income £67k
• Project Youth Cancer income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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