Melanoma Focus

Registered charity 1124716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED

Melanoma Focus is a national charity dedicated to providing a comprehensive and authoritative source of information about this most deadly form of skin cancer. The charity funds education and independent research projects, acts as an advocate for patients and carers, informs the general public and promotes the professional interests of clinicians, scientists & nurses working in the melanoma field.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are(a) to promote research into the causes and the treatment of melanoma for the public benefit; and(b) to raise awareness and advance education in relation to melanoma and its prevention, both to the general public and within the medical and scientific community, by:• producing, collecting, maintaining and disseminating information and materials about the disease, its treatment, the minimisation of risk in relation to it, and its prevention; and• supporting the development of clinical guidelines and consensus positions about the treatment of all forms of melanoma, and improving the efficiency, skill and knowledge of health professionals working in the melanoma field.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, FINLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £12,684 for the year, increasing its total funds to £311,424. Free reserves stood at £310,683, which is above the trustees' desired target of £200,000. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with no matters coming to the examiner's attention that would require further disclosure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06057181 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Melanoma Focus (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.

• PAYNE, Miranda Jane, Dr — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
• DEMPSEY, Kayley Anne — director, appointed 11/09/2024on trustee list
• ULMANN, George Oliver — director, appointed 11/09/2024on trustee list
• HORROBIN, Carl — director, appointed 11/09/2024on trustee list
• STEVENS, Caroline Denise — director, appointed 11/09/2024on trustee list
• MUNRO, Hugh William — director, appointed 11/08/2024on trustee list
• HARWOOD, Catherine Anne, Professor — director, appointed 27/11/2019on trustee list
• HODGETTS, Jacqueline Anne — director, appointed 01/10/2019on trustee list
• CHEESE, Imogen — director, appointed 20/06/2019on trustee list
• HARRIES, Mark, Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2017on trustee list
• PEACH, Alan Howard Skyrme — director, appointed 26/06/2013on trustee list
• DANIELS, Susanna Heather — secretary, appointed 19/09/2023

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Mark Harrieschair
• ALAN HOWARD SKYRME PEACH
• CAROLINE DENISE STEVENS
• Carl Horrobin
• Dr Miranda Payne
• George Oliver Ulmann
• Hugh William Munro
• Imogen Cheese
• Jacqueline Anne Hodgetts
• Kayley Anne Dempsey
• Professor Catherine Anne Harwood

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• Melanoma UK income £212k
• Melanoma Fund income £79k
• MELANOMA-ME FOUNDATION income £161k
• Ocular Melanoma UK income £181k
• THE SKIN CANCER RESEARCH FUND income £39k
• NEUROBLASTOMA UK income £491k

Side by side with its peers

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