PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND

Registered charity 1155322 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCRF

The charity offers project grants for pancreatic cancer research to researchers in the UK and Ireland.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£750k

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £5,379,991, driven by a net income of £735,927 which included significant investment returns. The charity is winding down its active grant-making and fundraising operations, with the Chief Executive continuing part-time to administer existing commitments and the Tissue Bank until at least 2027. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to cover the full cost of current awards, minimizing risk as income is expected to decrease.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: cover the full cost of awards allocated in each annual award round (held: £5.4m)

“The trustees have agreed that research awards will only be offered if the full cost of the award is already available in the charity’s funds. This will minimise risk and ensure continuity for each research project should the charity’s income be dramatically reduced. Reserves, therefore, cover the full cost of awards allocated in each annual award round.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Jo Hansford — Patron (source)
Professor Hemant Kocher — Director, PCRF Tissue Bank (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£750k

Cost of raising funds

£46k

Reserves (reported)

£5.4m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~86.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

BRIAN RAPER · trustee of 1 other charity
MARGARET BLANKS · trustee of 1 other charity
MARGARET BLANKS · trustee of 1 other charity
Peter Joseph Michael Blanks
Stephen Henry Collen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/11/2025	£1.5m	£750k
30/11/2024	£946k	£829k
30/11/2023	£1.5m	£660k
30/11/2022	£1.4m	£1.5m
30/11/2021	£1.4m	£2.2m

Common questions

Is PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £5,379,991, driven by a net income of £735,927 which included significant investment returns. The charity is winding down its active grant-making and fundraising operations, with the Chief Executive continuing part-time to administer existing commitments and the Tissue Bank until at least 2027. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to cover the full cost of current awards, minimizing risk as income is expected to decrease. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND	3	£32k
EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION	2	£331k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	2	£275k
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£260k
ROBERT LUFF FOUNDATION LIMITED	2	£100k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£47k
SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST	2	£45k
THE INMAN CHARITY	2	£19k

Charities like this

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

PANCREATIC CANCER UK income £13.7m
PLUM LAYTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
CANCER RESEARCH UK income £734.8m
CANCER RESEARCH WALES income £5.9m
THE BIG C APPEAL LIMITED income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PANCREATIC CANCER UK FY2025	£13.7m	—	—	unclear	42.0%	no doubt
PLUM LAYTON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£124k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO FY2024	£502k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CANCER RESEARCH UK FY2025	£734.8m	—	380	above	22.0%	no doubt
CANCER RESEARCH WALES FY2026	£5.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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