BONE CANCER RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 1159590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCRT; BCRT; BCR; BONE CANCER RESEARCH; TEAM BONES

The Bone Cancer Research Trust's mission is to save lives and improve outcomes for people affected by primary bone cancer by being: the catalyst for pioneering research, the trusted source of information, the voice of the primary bone cancer community and a supportive network for the people affected

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:() PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF PRIMARY BONE CANCER IN YOUNG PEOPLE AND IN PARTICULAR OF OSTEOSARCOMA AND EWING'S SARCOMA AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF;(II) PROVIDING COUNSELLING SUPPORT AND INFORMATION SERVICES FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM PRIMARY BONE CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES.

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 · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £1.48 million for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a deliberate decision to deploy significant funds into its research programme. Despite this deficit, the charity's unrestricted free reserves grew to £1.14 million, and the trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 — Bone Cancer Research Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 26.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Elstonchair
• Andrew Booth
• Anthea Martin
• Chris Sutton
• Elizabeth Bull
• Francesca Robinson
• GILLIAN JOHNSTON
• Jonathan Stevenson
• Margaret Moore
• Professor Alison Gartland
• Professor Bernadette Brennan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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

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 BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA).

• BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) income £123k
• BRAINSTRUST income £779k
• PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH income £7.5m
• BOWEL CANCER UK income £6.6m
• YORKSHIRE CANCER RESEARCH income £27.7m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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