Solving Kids' Cancer UK

Registered charity 1135601 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEUROBLASTOMA CHILDREN'S CANCER ALLIANCE, NEUROBLASTOMA CHILDREN'S CANCER ALLIANCE UK, SOLVING KIDS' CANCER EUROPE · also registered in Scotland as SC045094 (OSCR)

We help children access potentially life-saving treatment, whilst supporting research that not only aims to introduce new treatments but also bring existing internationally available options here to the UK. We support parents by sharing the most current resources available for neuroblastoma treatments and providing access to other parents who want to share their knowledge and experiences.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF CANCER IN CHILDREN THROUGH THE GREATER AWARENESS, PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, ACCESS TO TREATMENT PROTOCOLS IN HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTRES AND CLINICAL RESEARCH AIMED AT IMPROVED DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, RELIEVE THE SICKNESS AND THE POVERTY OF PERSONS LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS THAT THE DIRECTORS IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

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: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £530,197 for the year, resulting in an undesignated surplus of £220,050. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £1,063,781 represent 10.3 months of undesignated expenditure, which is above their stated policy target of six to nine months. The auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. 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)

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 — Solving Kids’ Cancer UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Andy Pearson — Chair of Solving Kids' Cancer UK Scientific Advisory Board (source)
• Helen Pearson — Chair, National Neuroblastoma Nursing Group (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).

• Sumo Group — “We're grateful to partner with Sumo Group! Sumo Group are supporting Solving Kids' Cancer UK in a variety of ways to help drive change for c…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra May Austin Lane
• Cameron Miller
• Carl Cavers
• DAVID FRANCOIS COULON
• Dr Aine McCarthy
• Helen Duffy
• Ioannis Topsakalidis
• Nicholas James Bird · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stewart Alan Leaver

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Nicholas James Bird — trustee here and at CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 NEUROBLASTOMA UK.

• NEUROBLASTOMA UK income £491k
• Children's Cancer North income £1.0m
• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• SARCOMA UK income £4.6m
• THE CALM TRUST income £80k
• MY SHINING STAR income £227k

Side by side with its peers

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