THE ROSE THOMPSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1182806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B'Me Against Cancer, BME CANCER COMMUNITIES

We provide or collaborate in the provision of culturally sensitive and appropriate information, advocacy and support services to people particularly, but not exclusively,from Black and Minority Ethnic and low-income communities affected by cancer e.g. establish support groups for cancer patients and carers address cancer inequalities that negatively impact the socioeconomically disadvantaged.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FROM BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC (BME) AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES LIVING WITH OR AFFECTED BY CANCER BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF:A) CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AND APPROPRIATE PRACTICAL ADVICE, INFORMATION, ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT SERVICESB) SERVICES DIRECTED TO IMPROVING PARTICIPATION IN BME CANCER RESEARCH AND DETECTION INITIATIVESC) DIVERSITY TRAINING TO IMPROVE THE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF STATUTORY BODIES.

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: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total incoming resources were £42,729, with the majority derived from donations and grants. However, resources expended totaled £46,490, resulting in a net outgoing of £3,762 and a negative net asset position of £215. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2025 (received 07/10/2026, 7 days after the 30/09/2026 due date); year ending 30/11/2022 (received 16/11/2023, 47 days after the 30/09/2023 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

• LINDSAY RAY THOMPSONchair
• ELAINE ISRAEL-SAMUELS
• JACKIE BROWN
• Jenene Aikman
• Rupert Aikman
• SHARON STEVENS
• Vivian Oliver · trustee of 1 other charity

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 THE ROSE FOUNDATION.

• THE ROSE FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• THE THOMPSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
• THE ROSE MEMORIAL TRUST income £109k
• WHITE HOUSE CANCER SUPPORT LIMITED income £236k
• THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION income £32k
• THE EMPOWERMENT GROUP income £86k

Side by side with its peers

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