THE CHRONIC DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1186102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CDRF

The CDRF, an independent medical research charity, funds a range of research programs that aim to discover the cause of common chronic diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, migraine, asthma, dementia. The CDRF runs many projects at the Department of Twin Research, St Thomas' Hospital. It is hoped the research will contribute to the development of future diagnostic tests and treatments.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF, AND CURE FOR, CHRONIC DISEASES INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) COMMON DISEASES THAT HAVE A STRONG GENETIC INFLUENCE; ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE BOARD IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINKS FIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £732,638 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in closing net assets of £5,112,615. The trustees' report confirms that unrestricted funds of £543,110 remain well above the stated policy minimum of approximately six months' projected management and administrative expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bourner Bullock. 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12266787

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WALLEY, Andrew John, Dr — director, appointed 10/05/2023on trustee list
• ROSS, Jonathan Mark Henry — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list
• BOCHUKOVA, Elena Georgieva, Dr — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
• BENAIM, Michael — director, appointed 16/10/2019on trustee list
• PIKE, Nicholas Simon — director, appointed 16/10/2019on trustee list
• SIMON, Mark Daniel Benjamin — director, appointed 16/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Daniel Benjamin Simonchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Elena Georgieva Bochukova
• Jonathan Ross
• MICHAEL BENAIM
• Nicholas Pike

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED.

• THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED income £246.2m
• THE CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISORDER SOCIETY income £359k
• DIABETES RESEARCH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• MANCHESTER NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH TRUST FUND income £33k
• DOWNS SYNDROME RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED income £30k
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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