CANCER AWARENESS TRUST

Registered charity 1181054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CANCER AWARENESS TRUST, THE ELLIPSES CANCER TRUST

Our charitable activities focus on providing the public with essential information about cancer that they can easily understand and trust.Specifically, a digital interface where the public can derive an education about cancer, cancer treatments, cancer clinical trials and other such relevant information that will help the public make informed decisions about their health or those of their rela

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SAVING OF LIVES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WORLDWIDE BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:(I) FUNDING, CREATING AND MAINTAINING AN ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL PLATFORM TO PROVIDE DETAILED INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ALL TYPES OF CANCER;(II) ENABLING ACCESS BY THE PUBLIC TO EXTERNAL RESOURCES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND OTHER HEALTHCARE CHARITIES) RELATING TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ALL TYPES OF CANCER;(III) PROVIDING EXPERT INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSES AND TREATMENT OF CANCER;(B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,506,549 for the year, resulting in negative unrestricted reserves of £1,464,588. Fundraising expenditure of £1,910,242 significantly exceeded total income of £1,145,595, indicating a heavy reliance on external support or reserves to cover costs. The trustees maintain that the charity can continue as a going concern due to expected support from founders and donors.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cancer Awareness Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julian Francis Howardchair
• Dr Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau
• Jane Louise Clarke
• Timothy Richard Rebbeck

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO.

• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• CANCER ASSESSMENT RAPID EARLY SUPPORT income £246k
• TOGETHER AGAINST CANCER income £508k
• CANCER RESEARCH WALES income £5.9m
• FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• BABONS CANCER SUPPORT income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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