Melanoma UK

Registered charity 1157635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MELANOMA UK - INCORPORATING FACTOR 50, MELANOMA UK, FACTOR 50

To provide support, education, and advocacy for the public in particular those impacted by Melanoma. We work in collaboration with skin professionals in the field of diagnosis, treatment, research and care. Our core focus is to help promote good skin health, reducing the instances and impact of this largely avoidable skin cancer by supporting advancements in prevention, treatment and cure.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE SUFFERING FROM OR AFFECTED BY MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN PARTICULAR BY:A) PROVIDING ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO THOSE AFFECTED BY MALIGNANT MELANOMA AND UNBIASED AND ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISEASE TO THE WIDER PUBLIC;B) RAISING AWARENESS OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA AND ITS CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS;C) SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO MALIGNANT MELANOMA AND ITS CURES, TREATMENTS AND PREVENTION2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MALIGNANT MELANOMA.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £211,758 from £285,944 in the prior year, while total expenditure was £203,804. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £314,045, which exceeds its stated policy target of £100,000, and the trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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.

Charity Commission inquiry

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 10/11/2023, 133 days after the 30/06/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• paula bridgechair
• Adrian Carroll
• Barbara Cilindz
• DAVID BRIDGE

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 Fund.

• Melanoma Fund income £79k
• MELANOMA-ME FOUNDATION income £161k
• Melanoma Focus income £611k
• Ocular Melanoma UK income £181k
• SARCOMA UK income £4.6m
• The UK Myeloma Society income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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