MACMILLAN CARING LOCALLY

Registered charity 1189412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MACMILLAN LOCAL, THE MACMILLAN CANCER TRUST

The relief of people suffering from cancer or a life limiting illness or condition.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR A LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS OR CONDITION (BENEFICIARIES) BY THE PROVISION OF: (A) HOSPITALS, HOSPICES, CLINICS AND OTHER FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF BENEFICIARIES; (B) DOMICILIARY AND DAY CARE SERVICES FOR BENEFICIARIES; (C) MEDICAL AND OTHER STAFF FOR THE PROVISION OF TREATMENT OR CARE FOR BENEFICIARIES OR THOSE WHO PROVIDE ANCILLARY FUNCTIONS; (D) EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR A LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS OR CONDITION; (E) FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR BENEFICIARIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; (F) COUNSELLING, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND RESPITE CARE FOR BENEFICIARIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS BOTH DURING ILLNESS AND IN BEREAVEMENT AND SUCH OTHER FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO PROVIDE TREATMENT OR PALLIATIVE CARE FOR BENEFICIARIES.

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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £996,046 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £3,117,893. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £3,375,797, which meets the stated policy of holding 12 months of operating costs. The charity maintains a strong cash position with £6,304,132 in cash at bank and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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)

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 — Macmillan Caring Locally (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lin Sharp — Fundraising and Communications Director (source)
• Neal Williams — Trust Secretary (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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter James Westchair
• Ann Allen
• CLAIRE LOUISE WADE
• Denise Ann Bannister-Gee
• Dr Angus Edgar Hickish · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Karen Lesley Rees
• Howard Gordon Lee
• Jonathan Harvey
• Keith Wilkinson
• MICHAEL EDWARD EMSLEY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT.

• MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT income £268.4m
• FIGHTING ALL CANCERS TOGETHER income £554k
• LYMPHOMA ACTION income £2.9m
• Caring for Communities and People income £13.0m
• GAMLEARN income £310k
• MLD UK income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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