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.
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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
Largest income source: Donations and fundraising
“Our supporters helped us raise a magnificent £4.7M during this period”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: one year's worth of recurrently committed expenditure (held: £4.5m)
“The target would be to hold reserves to the value of approximately one year's worth of recurrently committed expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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)
Cost of raising funds
£522k
Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (08/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- 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
Common questions
Is CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CHARITY financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by DJH Audit Limited.
Who funds CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CHARITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CHARITY as a grant recipient include ROBERT LUFF FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUST, HAYS TRAVEL FOUNDATION, BAIN CHARITABLE TRUST, PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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