RACE AGAINST BLOOD CANCER

Registered charity 1162696 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RABC

Race Against Blood Cancer's goal is to increase the volume and diversity of people who register as potentially life-saving stem cell donors.Our ultimate goal is to increase the number of people from minority groups ? whether defined by race, ethnicity or gender ? which are vastly underrepresented on the donor registry as stem cell or bone marrow donors.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH BY RAISING AWARENESS OF BLOOD CANCERS AND THE NEED FOR DONORS BOTH BLOOD AND BONE MARROW WITHIN ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £32,228 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £29,135, while restricted funds held £8,320. The trustees note that the charity faces challenges in generating funds and recruiting volunteers, requiring a more diverse mix of income streams to achieve financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Race Against Blood Cancer (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund for funding our new website” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Westwood
• Dean Gardner
• Hinesh Shah
• JOE BATES
• Jacob Idowu Benjamin Knox-Hooke
• Raman Olwen Sisupalan

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).