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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH AND PROVIDE RELIEF FOR THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA (FL) INCLUDING PATIENTS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF FL WHICH LEADS TO BETTER DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND OUTCOMES FOR FL PATIENTS INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINDINGS OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF FL AND DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;B) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT FL DIRECTLY TO THOSE AFFECTED BY THE DISEASE;C) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT FL, ITS CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £47,078 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds increasing to £1,286,694. The trustees confirmed that free reserves of £1,021,409 exceed the stated policy target of approximately three months of planned expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, supported by an approved business plan to December 2027 and adequate cash resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £240,001 - £250,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 10.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LYMPHOMA ACTION.

• LYMPHOMA ACTION income £2.9m
• CURE LEUKAEMIA income £3.7m
• MELANOMA-ME FOUNDATION income £161k
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• THE FACULTY OF FORENSIC & LEGAL MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS income £1.0m
• THE UK CLL FORUM income £57k

Side by side with its peers

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