COMBAT CANCER

Registered charity 1178293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANCER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT · also registered in Scotland as SC048662 (OSCR)

Fundraising activities to support the leading UK cancer research organisations

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG THOSESUFFERING WITH CANCER BY THE SPONSORSHIP OF RELEVANT RESEARCH PROGRAMS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £4,734.33 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £50,009.00 against charitable expenditure of £54,743.33. Despite the deficit, unrestricted funds carried forward remain at £50,631.44, and the trustees confirm that the reserves policy target of six months' operating costs has been achieved. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/05/2024, 119 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth McDonald
• Justin Grosvenor
• Sharon Stanley

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

Operates in: 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 FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER.

• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION income £635k
• THE CHALLENGE FUND - THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER IN THE EMERGING WORLD income £290k
• CANCER AWARENESS TRUST income £1.1m
• CANCER CARE HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CHARITABLE TRUST income £86k
• PEMBROKESHIRE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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