CANCER CONNECTIONS LIMITED

Registered charity 1116728 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide for the people of South Tyneside * Telephone help * Cancer Drop-In * Counselling * Complementary therapies * Family support * Finance, benefits and debt advice * Information about cancer * Bereavement support

Objects

A TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE, OR WHO HAVE HAD, CANCER, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, BY THE PROVISION OF A RANGE OF PERSON-CENTRED THERAPIES AND COUNSELLING, AND ALSO TO DEVELOP HOME VISITS FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER TO REDUCE ISOLATION AND PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP.B TO PROMOTE SELF HELP AND MUTUAL SUPPORT AND STRIVE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH CANCER, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, TYNE AND WEAR

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: South Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £461,275 are sufficient to meet the charity's reserve requirement and sustain expenditure in the immediate future. The trustees consider the current financial position secure, noting that support from the local community continues to meet all financial needs. The charity holds a reserves policy target of £100,000, equivalent to six months of running costs.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cancer Connections (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 £125k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REGINALD HALLchair
• Andrew Hodgson
• Ashley Olley
• CHRISTOPHER ELLWOOD POTTS
• Dawn Townsley
• FAY CUNNINGHAM · trustee of 4 other charities
• JOHN ANGLIN
• Jonathan Carroll

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

Operates in: South Tyneside

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CANCERWISE income £146k
• LIVE WELL WITH CANCER income £176k
• SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED income £310k
• CANCER INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £241k
• CANCER RELIEF UK income £229k
• THE ROSEMERE CANCER FOUNDATION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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