BREAST CANCER NOW

Registered charity 1160558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN AND BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER, BREAST CANCER CARE AND BREAST CANCER NOW, BREAST CANCER CARE AND BREAST CANTER NOW, BREAST CANCER CARE AND BREAST CARE NOW, PROJECT BEACON · also registered in Scotland as SC045584 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves stood at £10.5 million, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a surplus of £1.2 million for the year, funded by a significant increase in donations and legacies, allowing it to maintain its operations and research programs despite the reserves being below the policy target.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO UK LLP.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Breast Cancer Now (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Claire Ryan
• Dr Andreas Makris · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Nisha Sharma
• Emma Woods
• Gail Louise Tucker
• Gail Russell
• Georgette Ulia Mogbonjubola Oni
• Helen Gorman
• KEITH DAVID FELTON · trustee of 5 other charities
• Professor Ingunn Holen
• Professor Mitch Dowsett
• Richard Henry Meddings · trustee of 1 other charity
• William James Patrick Richards

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

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

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 CANCER RESEARCH UK.

• CANCER RESEARCH UK income £734.8m
• Prevent Breast Cancer income £2.2m
• BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) income £123k
• LADIES FIGHTING BREAST CANCER CHARITABLE TRUST income £233k
• BREAST CANCER KENT income £142k
• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m