CANCERWISE

Registered charity 290574 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESSEX CANCER HELP CENTRE

Cancer Support centre providing counselling, complementary therapies, specialist support groups and gentle exercise to cancer patients, children and family members in West Sussex and South East Hampshire. Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of people experiencing cancer.

Objects

(I) To advance public education in approaches to cancer therapy.(II) To relieve sickness, both physically and mentally, by the provision of counselling, complementary therapies and health education in a caring community for cancer patients and their families.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity's unrestricted reserves decreased from £164,796 to £156,259 during the financial year. The Trustees note that the Charity is dependent on securing future funding and have admitted to late filing of accounts. The financial health is described as stable with no material uncertainty regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mazars. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 01803307

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CancerWise (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MANCE, Charlotte Joanna, Dr — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• MITCHELSON, Keith Ross Harper — director, appointed 13/09/2022on trustee list
• FOX, Alison Kay — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• LOCHHEAD, Emma Susannah — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• MEREDITH, Richard Martin — director, appointed 21/02/2017on trustee list
• HARLING, Anne Louise — secretary, appointed 17/09/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Meredithchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Kay Fox
• Dr Charlotte Joanna Mance
• Emma Susannah Lochhead · trustee of 2 other charities
• Keith Ross Harper Mitchelson

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

Operates in: Hampshire · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED.

• SOUTH EAST CANCER HELP CENTRE LIMITED income £310k
• Wessex Cancer Support income £1.4m
• CAMBRIDGE CANCER HELP CENTRE income £67k
• CANCER CARE TRUST income £48k
• CHARLIES COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £183k
• CANCER INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £241k

Side by side with its peers

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