PENNY BROHN CANCER CARE

Registered charity 284881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL CANCER HELP CENTRE, BRISTOL CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED, THE BRISTOL APPROACH, THE CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED

Penny Brohn UK is the cancer health and wellbeing charity. We help people feel better in mind, body and spirit by offering everybody with cancer a choice of personalised cancer care. All free, safe and backed by research.

Objects

TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN REGARD TO CANCER AND THOSE AFFECTED BY IT, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a modest operating surplus of £129,378 for the year ended 30 November 2025, marking a significant turnaround from the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £563,000 now exceed the charity's stated policy target of approximately £390,000, indicating improved financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2021 (received 03/10/2022, 3 days after the 30/09/2022 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 — Penny Brohn UK (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Louise Hill
• Bronwen Krystyna Wright
• Charles Russell-Smith
• Emma Claire Wallis
• Harvey Marcus
• Jayne Tucker
• Jessica Nona Brohn
• Jonathan Green
• Kate Pavli
• Nicola Newton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED.

• BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED income £2.1m
• PANCREATIC CANCER UK income £14.5m
• CANCER CARE TRUST income £48k
• CANCER SUPPORT UK (CSUK) income £599k
• CANCER HELP (PRESTON) LIMITED income £496k
• CARE ENGLAND income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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