BREAST CANCER NOW

Registered charity 1160558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q20646969 · Wikipedia · 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)

We're Breast Cancer Now, the UK's largest breast cancer charity and we're dedicated to funding research into this devastating disease. We're bringing together all those affected by the disease to improve the way we prevent, detect, treat and stop the disease. We believe that if we all act now, by 2050 everyone who develops breast cancer will live.

Objects

4.1 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY, IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO:4.1.1 ADVANCE HEALTH, INCLUDING THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM CANCER, PATIENTS RECEIVING TREATMENT, THOSE CONVALESCING FOLLOWING TREATMENT BY:4.1.1.1 PROMOTING ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL ASSIST WITH AWARENESS, IDENTIFICATION AND PREVENTION OF CANCER;4.1.1.2 ASSISTING THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DISABLED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE;4.1.2 ADVANCE THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS BY UNDERTAKING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF CANCER ON TERMS THAT THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED;4.1.3 ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF CANCER AND ITS TREATMENTS PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THAT GENERALITY) AMONG SUFFERERS OF CANCER AND THE FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND CARERS OF SUCH PERSONS; AND4.1.4 PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS CONCERNED WITH MEDICAL RESEARCH OR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO UK LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09347608

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MEDDINGS, Richard Henry — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• WOODS, Emma — director, appointed 19/02/2026on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Gail Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/11/2025on trustee list
• GORMAN, Helen Sarah — director, appointed 11/02/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDS, William James Patrick — director, appointed 20/02/2024on trustee list
• TUCKER, Gail Louise — director, appointed 29/11/2023on trustee list
• FELTON, Keith David — director, appointed 27/09/2023on trustee list
• RYAN, Claire — director, appointed 29/09/2022on trustee list
• ONI, Georgette Ulia Mogbonjubola, Dr — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• MAKRIS, Andreas, Dr — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• SHARMA, Nisha, Dr — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
• DOWSETT, Mitchell, Professor — director, appointed 28/07/2021not on trustee list
• HOLEN, Ingunn, Professor — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Exploring the Teachable Moment for Alcohol Reduction in Breast Clinics: Formative Work to Inform Intervention Design, Development, Process Evaluation —
• Micro-Robotics for Surgery —
• A Shared Space and a Space for Sharing: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Online Trust and Empathy —
• Charting cellular changes in the human breast associated with embryogenesis, parity, age, menopause and germline mutations —

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (794,595 likes) · instagram (153K followers) · linkedin

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Senior Marketing Officer — £34,000 - £39,500 per year · Multiple Locations (On-site) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Mass Participation Executive (Afternoon Tea) — £26,936 - £27,500 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)

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).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 54.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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 · trustee networks

• 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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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED income £2.1m
• AGAINST BREAST CANCER LIMITED income £1.4m
• BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) income £123k
• Prevent Breast Cancer income £2.2m
• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m
• BREAST CANCER SUPPORT income £244k

Side by side with its peers

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