CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CHARITY

Registered charity 1202412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is the only charity dedicated to supporting patients and research at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.The Charity funds life-saving research, innovations in care and technology and enhances the environment at Clatterbridge centres, making a real difference to people with cancer across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Objects

The Charity’s objects are specifically restricted to the following: a) for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service, wholly or mainly for the service provided by The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust or its successors; andb) to advance and promote knowledge and education in medicine in relation to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, including by engaging in and supporting medical research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer (and the dissemination of the useful results)

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: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £5.4m as of 31 March 2025, with £4.5m in general unrestricted reserves. The charity's reserves policy targets holding approximately one year's worth of recurrent committed expenditure, which is estimated at £2.95m, leaving £1.6m for future projects. The auditor 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 DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14732055

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Clatterbridge Cancer Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Brian Barwick OBE — Chair (source)
• Katrina Bury — Chief Executive (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.

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.

• SPENCER, Joan — director, appointed 27/07/2025on trustee list
• DORAN, Kathy — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• NEOPHYTOU, Savvas, Dr. — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• STUART, Stephen — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• WILSON, Philip Alan Stuart — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• BARWICK, Brian Robert — director, appointed 15/03/2023not on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Jordan John Joseph — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• FROST, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Robert Barwick OBEchair
• Catherine Mary Frost
• Dr Savvas Neophytou
• Joan Spencer
• Jordan John Joseph Wright
• Kathy Mary Doran
• PHILIP ALAN STUART WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Stuart

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• YORKSHIRE CANCER RESEARCH income £27.7m
• CANCER CARE TRUST income £48k
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• WORLD CANCER CARE income £66k
• CANCERWISE income £146k
• CHARLIES COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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