Ocular Melanoma UK

Registered charity 1147506 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCUMEL UK

Patient AdvocacyInformational websiteDedicated HelplinePeer-to-peer online supportRegional patient meetingsAnnual national conferenceHealth informationFunded psychological supportE-bulletinsInternational collaborationSupport research

Objects

(1) TO PRIMARILY PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE WITH OCULAR MELANOMA AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THROUGH SUPPORT, INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE. (2) TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO OCULAR MELANOMA AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Slough, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £7,442 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £85,457. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and confirm that resources are adequate to meet liabilities as they fall due. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £58,549, which are held above the stated minimum policy target of three months' operating expenses.

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 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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — OCULAR MELANOMA UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanne Fryechair
• Alison Benjamin
• Charlotte Edwards
• Colin White
• Diana Walker
• NEIL PEARCE
• Robert Davies

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

Operates in: 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
• LYMPHOMA ACTION income £2.9m
• MELANOMA-ME FOUNDATION income £161k
• Melanoma Fund income £79k
• THE MACULAR DISEASE SOCIETY income £8.9m
• SARCOMA UK income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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