CHILDHOOD EYE CANCER TRUST

Registered charity 327493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q45137011 · also known as CHECT, CHECT RB SOCIETY, R B SOCIETY, THE RETINOBLASTOMA SOCIETY

The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust provides a support and information service for children, families and individuals affected by retinoblastoma, a rare cancer which affects children, mostly under the age of five. It raises public and professional awareness and funds research projects aimed at increasing understanding of retinoblastoma and improving the treatment and care of children.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH RETINOBLASTOMA AND TO PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT FOR THOSE AFFECTED

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

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward were £367,315, an increase from the previous year's £295,548. The charity generated a net income of £71,767 against total expenditure of £588,637, with the majority of income coming from donations and legacies. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash flows for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 27.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN ELLINGTONchair
• ALEXANDER BREBBIA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ainne Ward
• Alexis Michelle Boothroyd
• Elizabeth Coleman
• Matt Holt
• Patrick Tonks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Downes
• SARAH LEE WATSON

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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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDHOOD TUMOUR TRUST.

• CHILDHOOD TUMOUR TRUST income £186k
• NEUROBLASTOMA UK income £491k
• KIDS CANCER CHARITY income £663k
• CHILDREN WITH CANCER FUND (POLEGATE) income £260k
• CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH TRUST income £145k
• Children's Cancer North income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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