RED TROUSER DAY

Registered charity 1171208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Vision: We envisage a world without Colorectal (Bowel) CancerWho are we? An independent community of patients and clinicians supporting research into the prevention, early diagnosis and cure of colorectal cancer. Our core activity is raising awareness, raising funds to support research and having fun in the process to ease the stress and anxiety of living with a Bowel Cancer diagnosis

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A)INCREASING AWARENESS OF COLORECTAL CANCER AND ITS SYMPTOMS ACROSS THE POPULATION IN THE UK;(B)FUNDING LEADING DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT RESEARCH INTO COLORECTAL CANCER, WHERE THERE IS A SHORTFALL IN OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, OR WHERE PIONEERING RESEARCH CANNOT BE FUNDED BY OTHER SOURCES, AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH IN ORDER TO:•INCREASE THE LEVEL OF EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND EARLY TREATMENT;•IMPROVE TREATMENT OUTCOMES•IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, REDUCING THEIR ANXIETY, HELPING THEM FEEL IN CONTROL WITH INCREASED HOPE, FROM DIAGNOSIS, THROUGH TREATMENT AND POST TREATMENT.

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

Latest income
£48k
Latest spending
£62k
Registered
2017
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted cash funds of £26,779 at the end of the period. Total payments of £61,762 exceeded total receipts of £48,096, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The document does not disclose any reserves policy, pension deficits, or trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 23
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Red Trouser Day (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£48k£62k
31/12/2024£45k£26k
31/12/2023£30k£24k
31/12/2022£33k£39k
31/12/2021£38k£32k

Common questions

Is RED TROUSER DAY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted cash funds of £26,779 at the end of the period. Total payments of £61,762 exceeded total receipts of £48,096, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The document does not disclose any reserves policy, pension deficits, or trading subsidiaries.

Who funds RED TROUSER DAY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RED TROUSER DAY as a grant recipient include THE AUBREY ORCHARD-LISLE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE AUBREY ORCHARD-LISLE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£1k

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 BOWEL CANCER WEST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
RED TROUSER DAY£48k—0unclear—no doubt
BOWEL CANCER WEST FY2025£45k—0unclear—no doubt
OCCTOPUS OXFORD COLON CANCER TRUST FY2025£41k—0unclear—no doubt
BOWEL CANCER UK FY2025£6.6m——within—no doubt
Bowel Research UK FY2025£1.6mmore than £60,0001above21.5%no doubt
CANCER CARE HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£86k—0above—no doubt

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