LEUKAEMIA CARE

Registered charity 1183890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC049802 (OSCR)

Leukaemia Care is a national blood cancer support charity. We are dedicated to ensuring that anyone affected by blood cancer receives the right information, advice and support. We provide services to patients and their families, and education and training to the healthcare professionals that look after them. We also campaign for earlier diagnosis of leukaemia and access to treatment.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG PERSONS SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA AND ALLIED BLOOD DISORDERS. 2) THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONG THE FAMILIES, CARERS AND FRIENDS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA AND ALLIED BLOOD DISORDERS, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE CONTEMPLATING OR SUFFERING BEREAVEMENT OR WHO MUST CONTEMPLATE THE PROSPECT OF TREATMENT WHERE THOSE NEEDS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE AFFLICTION OF LEUKAEMIA AND ALLIED BLOOD DISORDERS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £2,496,795 from £2,821,699 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £2,448,797. The charity reported a net surplus of £83,274 and held unrestricted reserves of £1,854,485, which the trustees confirm is consistent with their reserves policy.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leukaemia Care (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Ranulph George Matthews-Maxwellchair
• Carina Patterson
• Dharmesh Mehta
• Dr Luca Sabia
• Dr Sarah Ann Smith
• Dr Suzanne Dilly
• Elizabeth Jane Wilson
• Peter Mobbs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Heppell
• Wendy Jane DAVIES

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CURE LEUKAEMIA.

• CURE LEUKAEMIA income £3.7m
• BUD FLANAGAN LEUKAEMIA FUND LIMITED income £28k
• BLOOD CANCER ALLIANCE income £119k
• LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH APPEAL FOR WALES income £29k
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LEUKAEMIA APPEAL income £45k
• LEUKAEMIA CANCER SOCIETY income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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