CANCER 52

Registered charity 1174569 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and protect the health and sufferers of rare and less common cancers for the public benefit by :(a) Promoting understanding, awareness and research about rare and less common cancers(b) acting as a collective voice and advocating needs of individuals affected by a rare or less common cancers(c)supporting not-for-profit organisations in field of rare and less common cancers

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF RARE AND LESS COMMON CANCERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) ADVANCING AND PROMOTING THE UNDERSTANDING, AWARENESS, RESEARCH AND LEARNING ABOUT RARE AND LESS COMMON CANCERS;(B) ACTING AS A COLLECTIVE VOICE AND ADVOCATING FOR THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY A RARE OR LESS COMMON CANCER IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE OUTCOMES OF DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND LONG-TERM SUPPORT; AND(C) SUPPORTING, REPRESENTING AND EMPOWERING NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF RARE AND LESS COMMON CANCER.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Cancer52 generated a surplus of £14,819 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £363,420 against expenditure of £348,601. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £65,732, which the Board considers sufficient to cover five months of operational running costs in line with their stated policy of holding between five and seven months' expenditure.

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 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Cancer52 is grateful for a three-year funding stream from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK.” (source page)
• AstraZeneca — “Cancer52 Corporate Supporters AstraZeneca” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne MacDowellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Boughey
• Anna Evans
• Clare Clifton
• Dr Max Brodermann
• Michael Draeger
• Nic Puntis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Davies
• Willemke Dagmar Droogsma
• Yasmin Sheikh

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

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 WALES.

• CANCER RESEARCH WALES income £5.9m
• EHE RARE CANCER CHARITY (UK) income £133k
• SARCOMA UK income £4.6m
• THE CHILDREN'S CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA GROUP income £5.5m
• CANCER AWARENESS TRUST income £1.1m
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k

Side by side with its peers

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