TEENS UNITE FIGHTING CANCER

Registered charity 1118361 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Teens Unite are dedicated to improving the lives of young people with cancer so they don't have to face their battle alone. The charity supports those aged 13 to 24 from across the UK, helping them to overcome the emotional, social and physical impact cancer has on a young person. Teens Unite is the only charity in the UK to offer ongoing support of this kind to young people.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO RELIEVE PAIN AND SUFFERING AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 13 - 24 WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR OTHER LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR HELPING TO PROVIDE RESPITE CENTRES FACILITIES AMENITIES OR SUPPORT (FINANCIAL OR OTHERWISE) FOR SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE THEIR CARERS OR FAMILIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an income of £1,226,568, representing a 27% increase on the previous year, with net incoming resources of £222,712. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,267,150 and designated funds of £600,000, entering the next financial year with operational reserves equivalent to four months of expenditure against a new strategic target of six months. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HB Accountants. Discloses 6 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Teens Unite Fighting Cancer (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Roxanne Lawrance — CEO (source)
• Karen Millen OBE — Co-Founder (source)
• Debbie Pezzani BEM — Co-Founder (source)
• Hazel Jones — Chair of Trustees (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).

• Sport England — “Thanks to Sport England, we’re delivering a 12-week football program designed to get young people moving again after their diagnosis.” (source page)
• Kinovo — “We're honoured to support Teens Unite in their mission to enhance the lives of young people affected by cancer, something we have been proud…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~22.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (52% 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: 30.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Hazel Joanne Joneschair
• Angela Livingstone
• Donna-Marie Patten
• Dr Kai Newton
• Jason Marchant
• Natalie Collins
• Patrick Maslen
• Sarah Cork

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

Operates in: 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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEENAGE CANCER TRUST.

• TEENAGE CANCER TRUST income £21.1m
• CANCER UNITED income £205k
• UK YOUTH income £13.8m
• TEEN ACTION income £342k
• Project Youth Cancer income £155k
• TEENS UNITED income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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