THE RUTH STRAUSS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1183221 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support research into the diagnosis, treatment and cure of rare forms of lung cancer, in particular but not limited to, adenocarcinoma; and to provide support to sufferers of lung cancer and other terminal illnesses and their families (in particular but not limited to young children).

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit of £141k for the year ended 31 March 2024, with total income of £2,338k. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate cash reserves to settle liabilities for at least 12 months, and the auditor found no material uncertainties related to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong & Co. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ruth Strauss Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Strauss — Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allison Jane Wood
• Ann-Louise Ward
• Dame Laura Elizabeth Lee

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROY CASTLE LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION.

• ROY CASTLE LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION income £5.2m
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• THE HELEN STRAKER CHARITY income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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