FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1185091 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

OUR MISSION IS TO HELP THOSE WITH FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA (FL), A CURRENTLY INCURABLE BLOOD CANCER, TO LIVE WELL AND GET WELL BY FINDING AND FUNDING THE BEST RESEARCH TO FIND BREAKTHROUGHS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW WE UNDERSTAND AND TREAT FL. WE PROVIDE FL FOCUSED INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR PATIENTS AND WORK TO ENSURE PATIENTS' VOICES ARE AT THE HEART OF THE SEARCH FOR BETTER TREATMENTS AND CURE.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £24,738 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds of £1,239,616. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £1,102,542 significantly exceed the stated policy target of £500,000, and the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate based on existing budgets and resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £200,001 - £230,000 (FY2023) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Follicular Lymphoma Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma France — Global Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Nicola Mendelsohn — Chair, UK and US Board (source)
• Lord Jon Mendelsohn — UK and US Board (source)
• Lord Richard Harrington — UK Board (source)
• Andrea Wong — UK Board (source)
• Mike Thompson — UK Board (source)
• Professor Jonathan Simons — UK and US Board (source)
• Jess Burley — UK Board (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median 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.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lady Nicola Sharon Mendelsohnchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrea Lynn Wong
• Jessica Jane Burley
• Jonathan Wilson Simons
• Lord Richard Irwin Harrington
• PETER MICHAEL VARDEY THOMPSON
• The Lord Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Germany · Israel · Italy · Netherlands · Spain · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• The Lord Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn — trustee here and at THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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

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 INTERNATIONAL CML FOUNDATION.

• THE INTERNATIONAL CML FOUNDATION income £267k
• THE LORNA AND YUTI CHERNAJOVSKY BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £508k
• THE LILY FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK income £17.8m
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• THE CO-OPERATIVE CLINICAL CANCER THERAPY TRUST FUND income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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