KIDS CANCER CHARITY

Registered charity 1113821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN LEWIS CHILDREN'S CANCER CHARITY, CHRISTIAN LEWIS TRUST, CHRISTIAN LEWIS TRUST LIMITED

The relief of sickness among children suffering from cancer by the provision of emotional and practical support that complements and adds value to the services provided by the statutory authorities with the object of improving their conditions of life and those of their families or carers.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AMONG CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM CANCER BY THE PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT THAT COMPLEMENTS AND ADDS VALUE TO THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND THOSE OF THEIR FAMILIES OR CARERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources fell by 3% to £663,108 while total resources expended increased by 5% to £740,425, resulting in a net outgoing of £88,248. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds decreased from £726,379 to £688,100, while restricted funds dropped from £99,490 to £49,521. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by R H Jeffs & Rowe. 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
• 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).

• ‘Trans power couple’ Jake and Hannah Graf fundraise for kids’ cancer charity amid safety concerns thepinknews.com · 26/09/2025

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kids Cancer Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £194k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 24.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR KRISHNA SHASTRIchair
• Dewi West
• MR PAUL HUNT
• TERRY THOMAS DEWAN

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.

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 FUND (POLEGATE).

• CHILDREN WITH CANCER FUND (POLEGATE) income £260k
• Project Youth Cancer income £155k
• CORBY AND DISTRICT CANCER CARE income £433k
• COST OF CANCER income £24k
• CANCER RELIEF UK income £229k
• Children's Cancer North income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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