WMUK

Registered charity 1187121 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WMUK is the only charity in the UK focused solely on Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia (WM), a rare type of blood cancer. Our vision is that people affected by WM live longer, good quality lives, being supported every step of the way by WMUK. Our goal is to be the informed voice of WM in the UK.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA (WM) THROUGH THE PROVISION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICE ADVICE.THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO WM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS AND CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH WM.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO WM.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £549,556, which the trustees note allows for approximately seventeen months of running costs. This figure exceeds the charity's stated reserves policy target of 12 months of operating costs. The charity received £423,817 in revenue and finished the year with a net income of £72,903.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~16.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 4.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Bloodworth
• Dr Harriet Jane Middleton Scorer
• Dr Mercia Page
• Jane Kidd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Moshinsky
• Noreen Mohammed Bhatti
• Shazia Khan

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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Side by side with its peers

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