BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1138866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCUK, BREAST CANCER UK

BREAST CANCER UK is dedicated to the primary prevention of breast cancer through scientific understanding, education, collaboration and policy change both nationally and internationally.

Objects

(1) ADVANCING HEALTH AND SAVING LIVES BY SEEKING TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF BREAST CANCER BY IDENTIFYING ITS CAUSES AND ENCOURAGING A PREVENTATIVE APPROACH.(2) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC (INCLUDING PATIENTS, THEIR FAMILIES, THE MEDICAL RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT AND OTHERS) ABOUT THE CAUSES, IMPACT AND PREVENTION OF BREAST CANCER.(3) COLLATING, CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH (INCLUDING THE ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL DATA AND RESEARCH) INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER, AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £202,299 for the financial year, with total income growing by 37% to £2,099,167. Per the trustees' report, net assets increased significantly to £2,333,145, reflecting a strong financial turnaround from the projected deficit. The charity maintains free reserves of £1,199,918, which are well above its stated policy target of £400,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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
• 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 — Breast Cancer UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Tobenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amish Shree Acharya
• Anne Lloyd
• Clelia Froguel
• Dr Azeem Saleem
• Elizabeth Anne Roberts
• Elspeth Mary Mackeggie Gurney
• Lisa Marsden Helfer
• Lotte Spencer
• Nazia Tingay
• Rachel Atkinson

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

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK BREAST CANCER GROUP (UKBCG).

• UK BREAST CANCER GROUP (UKBCG) income £381k
• AGAINST BREAST CANCER LIMITED income £1.4m
• Prevent Breast Cancer income £2.2m
• BREAST CANCER SUPPORT income £244k
• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m
• LADY MCADDEN BREAST CANCER TRUST income £299k

Side by side with its peers

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