THE BRITISH GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER SOCIETY

Registered charity 290959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4970030 · Wikipedia · also known as B G C S, THE BRITISH GYNAECOLOGICAL CANER SOCIETY

A scientific organisation devoted to the study and development of the field of gynaecological cancers

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AND ART OF GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £110,721 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £435,502. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory, noting that reserves remain high relative to their policy of sustaining the charity for one year. The charity holds significant cash balances of £421,558 and has no restricted funds remaining at year-end.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 31/12/2021 (received 01/12/2022, 31 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Phillips
• Bavita Rai
• Dr Nicholas James Wood
• Dr Nithya Darshini Guru Ratnavelu
• Professor Michael Wells
• Simon Christian Leeson
• Thomas Edward James Ind · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GENETIC MEDICINE.

• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GENETIC MEDICINE income £172k
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF UROGYNAECOLOGY income £150k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH income £185k
• THE BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £181k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL GENOMIC SCIENCE income £57k
• COMBAT CANCER income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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