NEUROBLASTOMA UK

Registered charity 326385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7002150 · Wikipedia · also known as THE NEUROBLASTOMA SOCIETY · also registered in Scotland as SC053101 (OSCR)

Neuroblastoma UK raises money to fund scientific research into the causes of neuroblastoma (a cancer affecting mainly young children) and improved treatments. It also provides support and advice to parents and others affected by the disease.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM NEUROBLASTOMA

Area of benefit: ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £105,777, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £70,000. The charity reported a net income of £401,724, driven primarily by donations, while expenditure on charitable activities was significantly lower than the previous year. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

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 31/12/2024 (received 10/11/2025, 10 days after the 31/10/2025 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Public update on COVID-19 from Neuroblastoma UK and Solving Kids' Cancer neuroblastoma.org.uk · 17/03/2020

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~46.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clair Cliff
• DR Katherine Wheeler
• Dr MARTIN ELLIOTT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Rebecca Louise Van Goethem
• Faye Watts
• Janet Elizabeth Davies
• Jonathan Anderson
• MALCOLM HUGH DEAN
• PROFESSOR DEBORAH ANNE TWEDDLE
• Ruby Charlotte Dickens
• STEPHEN MICHAEL SMITH
• Victoria Eadington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zara Aitchison

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Solving Kids' Cancer UK.

• Solving Kids' Cancer UK income £2.9m
• THE NEUROFIBROMATOSIS ASSOCIATION income £555k
• Melanoma UK income £212k
• THE AMELIA-MAE FOUNDATION income £116k
• THE NEUROSURGICAL FOUNDATION income £95k
• SARCOMA UK income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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