BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH

Registered charity 289297 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30265709

Providing educational and training opportunities to members in the field of cancer research.Organising conferences / training events in the field of cancer research.Providing award opportunities for outstanding scientists in the field of cancer research.Supporting conferences / training events in the field of cancer research.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCE OF RESEARCH IN RELATION TO ALL ASPECTS OF CANCER BY ENCOURAGING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Glasgow City, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an operating deficit for the year of £3,690. Per the trustees' report, the principal funding sources are capital investment and membership subscriptions, with unrestricted funds totaling £1,490,504 at the end of the period.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• AstraZeneca — “BACR/AstraZeneca Young Scientist Frank Rose Award” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr George Poulogiannis
• Dr Giorgia Cioccoloni
• Dr Greg Nicholas Brooke
• Dr Jack William Leslie
• Dr Louise Victoria Fets
• Dr Mark Alfred Wade
• Dr Timothy Robert Fenton
• Dr William John Brackenbury
• Prof Antia Grigoriadis
• Prof Charlotte Lynne Bevan
• Professor Joanne Edwards
• Professor Kevin Ryan

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA).

• BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) income £123k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE income £6.4m
• CANCER RESEARCH AND GENETICS UK income £128k
• THE BRITISH GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER SOCIETY income £554k
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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