LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION

Registered charity 1160922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND, Lingen Davies Cancer Support

We raise funds for the relief of cancer patients in Shropshire Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales. Donations are made to assist with the purchase of equipment and to ensure that cancer facilities are of a very high standard. Current fundraising to achieve this is through the Ruby Appeal. We are also looking at projects to encourage public engagement with screening programmes and awareness of symptoms

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,473,021, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £441,108. The charity maintains a designated reserves policy target of £272,400 to cover running costs, which is currently exceeded by its free reserves. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dyke Yaxley Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lingen Davies Cancer Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIMOTHY COOPERchair
• Colin Christopher Deane
• Daniel Edward Lloyd-Jones
• David Crosby
• Dena Louise Evans
• Dr Amruta Lacy-Colson
• Dr GILL EATOUGH
• Dr Jeremy Richard Johnson
• Dr Laurence Ginder
• MRS HELEN THOMAS
• Peter Jackson
• VALERIE ANNE EDWARDS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Gwynedd · Powys · Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Colin Christopher Deane — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Daniel Edward Lloyd-Jones — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• David Crosby — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Dena Louise Evans — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Dr Amruta Lacy-Colson — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Dr GILL EATOUGH — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Dr Jeremy Richard Johnson — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Dr Laurence Ginder — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• MRS HELEN THOMAS — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
• Peter Jackson — trustee here and at LINGEN DAVIES CANCER FUND CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 CANCER ASSESSMENT RAPID EARLY SUPPORT.

• CANCER ASSESSMENT RAPID EARLY SUPPORT income £246k
• CANCER CARE AND HAEMATOLOGY FUND income £108k
• THE LLANELLI-DINEFWR HOSPICE APPEAL FUND income £157k
• THE ROYAL MARSDEN CANCER CHARITY income £34.0m
• THE CHALLENGE FUND - THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER IN THE EMERGING WORLD income £290k
• THE PLYMOUTH AND CORNWALL CANCER FUND income £148k

Side by side with its peers

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