NATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1160609 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of health, in particular to promote and protect the health of the public by coordinating research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure of all forms of cancer and into the needs of people affected by cancer. And to promote collaboration between cancer research funders in the UK to maximise the value and benefits of cancer research for the benefit of the public.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY CO-ORDINATING RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL FORMS OF CANCER AND INTO THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CANCER; AND(2) TO PROMOTE COLLABORATION BETWEEN CANCER RESEARCH FUNDERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO MAXIMISE THE VALUE AND BENEFITS OF CANCER RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1.6m, while total expenditure was £1.8m, resulting in a net deficit of £194,340. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £970,651, which is in excess of the stated policy target range of £554,000–£692,000.

Automated summary of the FY2022 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CANCER RESEARCH AND GENETICS UK income £128k
• PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH income £7.5m
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m
• UK AND IRELAND NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOUR SOCIETY income £128k
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £326k

Side by side with its peers

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