LUNG CANCER RESEARCH

Registered charity 1201017 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The granting of funds for research into the cure of lung cancer

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH BY PROMOTING AND FUNDING CLINICAL LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF LUNG CANCER.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £335,866 to £292,046 due to a net movement in funds of (43,820). Total incoming resources were £39,799, primarily from donations and legacies, while total resources expended were £83,619, largely for research funding at Imperial College. The independent examiner reported no matters coming to their attention regarding compliance with the Charities Act.

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 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 23/04/2026, 174 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 21/04/2026, 537 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lung Cancer Research (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Stephen Meeks BA Honschair
• Nicola Anne Wyborn
• Professor Michael Julian Seckl PhD · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EIG CANCER RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.

• EIG CANCER RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION income £15k
• BREAST CANCER HOPE income £56k
• CURE CANCER @ UCL CANCER INSTITUTE income £39k
• BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH CAMPAIGN income £211k
• PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH income £7.5m
• CANCER CARE HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CHARITABLE TRUST income £86k

Side by side with its peers

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