MELANOMA-ME FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1183479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote health and wellbeing to patients and their loved ones affect by melanoma and other forms of skin cancer by:(A) Providing counselling, support and holistic therapies for people affected by melanoma and skin cancer.(B) Raising awareness of malignant melanoma and skin cancer.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO:TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE THOSE SUFFERING FROM OR AFFECTED BY SKIN CANCER, IN PARTICULAR MALIGNANT MELANOMA, IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) PROVIDING ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO THOSE AFFECTED BY MALIGNANT MELANOMA AND UNBIASED AND ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISEASE TO THE WIDER PUBLIC;(B) RAISING AWARENESS OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA AND ITS CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS(C) PROVIDING COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND THERAPIES SUCH AS PODIATRY AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY MELANOMA AND SKIN CANCER

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 · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £30,140 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in total reserves of £150,365. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £102,615 remain slightly above their stated policy target of six to nine months' expenditure. Per the independent examiner's report, no matters were identified that would cause concern regarding the financial statements or accounting records.

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
• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2021 (received 22/03/2022, 22 days after the 28/02/2022 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Dixon
• James Rafferty
• LYNN PRUDHOE
• Ronan Smith
• Shelley Simms
• Susan Wilson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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• Melanoma Fund income £79k
• Melanoma UK income £212k
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• Ocular Melanoma UK income £181k
• LYMPHOMA ACTION income £2.9m
• THE AMELIA-MAE FOUNDATION income £116k

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