NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH (INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH CCR)

Registered charity 519357 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH, CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH TRUST

NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUNDS CANCER RESEARCH IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND NORTH-WALES. OUR RESEARCH IS MOSTLY CARRIED OUT IN OUR THREE CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF WALES IN BANGOR

Objects

The objects for which the Charity is established are: a) to promote and carry out research into cancer, its diagnosis and its treatment and to disseminate the results of such research to the public; andb)to educate the public in respect of all matters relating to cancer and its diagnosis, treatments and effects and impact upon a person,so that the public may better understand cancer, its impact,its causes and how best to avoid such illness or conditions,including advice about lifestyle and other contributory factors.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves stood at £3,691,012, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £2.67m. The charity reported a net expenditure before investment gains of £1,726,783, offset by investment gains of £450,719, resulting in a net movement in funds of £1,171,749.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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)

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.

What the charity says about itself

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North West Cancer Research Incorporating Clatterbridge Cancer Research (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 56.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Stalker
• Dr Sharvari Kothari-Short
• Frances Hewison
• Jenny Bowers
• Joanne Louise Clague
• John Willis
• Julie Edler
• Keri Barton
• Michael FitzGerald Carter · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul Edmund Moonan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandeep Anantharaman
• Susan Giles · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Conwy · Cumbria · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Lancashire · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH WEST LUNG CENTRE.

• NORTH WEST LUNG CENTRE income £20.9m
• CANCER RESEARCH WALES income £5.9m
• NATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE income £1.6m
• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (USA) FOUNDATION LIMITED income £399k
• LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £769k
• CANCER RESEARCH AND GENETICS UK income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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