ANTHONY NOLAN

Registered charity 803716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANTHONY NOLAN TRUST, THE ANTHONY NOLAN BONE MARROW TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC038827 (OSCR)

Anthony Nolan saves the lives of people with blood cancer. By growing our register of stem cell donors, conducting research and providing outstanding support to patients, Anthony Nolan cures people's blood cancer and blood disorders. But we need to do more. Without you, there is no cure.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £0.6m for the year, with total income of £70.8m and total expenditure of £71.4m. Free reserves remained at £8.0m, which is at the lower end of the trustees' stated policy range of £8m to £12m. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• 'He wouldn't be alive today' - work pals to climb the Big One for lifesaving Anthony Nolan Trust blackpoolgazette.co.uk · 24/03/2026
• OE Ollie Delivers Powerful Talk Raising Awareness For Anthony Nolan Trust epsomcollege.org.uk · 26/09/2025
• Anthony Nolan Trust: SFRS staff sign up pupils from St Mungo's High in Falkirk as potential life-savers falkirkherald.co.uk · 06/07/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02379280

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Henny Braund MBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Nic Alderson — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Ian Deans — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Nicky Read — Chief of Fundraising (source)
• Dr Robert Danby — Chief Medical and Scientific Officer (source)
• Caitlin Farrow — Director of Strategy and Influencing (source)
• Ann O'Leary — Director of Donor and Transplantation Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• MCMANUS, Philomena — director, appointed 23/06/2025on trustee list
• LEEMING, Robert Antony Dundas — director, appointed 23/06/2025on trustee list
• RAMAGOPALAN, Sreeram, Dr — director, appointed 23/06/2025on trustee list
• POTTER, Victoria Therese, Dr — director, appointed 03/07/2023on trustee list
• LEE, Deborah Clare — director, appointed 09/11/2022on trustee list
• CONROY, Susan Esther, Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• MILLER, Matthew James Barrington — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• HORLICK, Nicola Karina Christina — director, appointed 21/01/2021on trustee list
• RITSON, Mark — director, appointed 24/01/2019on trustee list
• LAWS, Martin John Hallam — director, appointed 27/03/2018on trustee list
• DURLING, Samantha Emily — secretary, appointed 31/03/2020

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Pre-clinical development of a hematopoietic stem cell therapy product —
• Dissecting the functional impact of natural killer cell receptor variation in cattle. —
• Miniaturisation of high throughput healthcare bioreactors for advanced therapeutics —
• Explore the impact of genetic variation on the livestock immune response to pathogens —
• SMARTCell: Scalable Manufacture of Advanced Regenerative Therapeutics - Cell Therapies —
• IAH Fellowship:Using comparative genetics to investigate ruminant NK cell receptor evolution and function —

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

CQC provider record: Anthony Nolan — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 14/03/2013.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (131,076 likes) · instagram (59K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Brand & Insight Manager — £39,000 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Supporter-Led Fundraising Coordinator — £32,249 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 3 weeks ago (seen 26/08/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Karina Christina Horlickchair
• Deborah Clare Lee
• Dr Susan Esther Conroy
• Dr Victoria Therese Potter
• Mark Ritson
• Martin John Hallam Laws
• Matthew Graham-Hyde
• Matthew James Barrington Miller
• PHILOMENA MCMANUS
• Robert Antony Dundas Leeming
• Sreeram Ramagopalan · 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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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Blood Cancer UK Research.

• Blood Cancer UK Research income £21.1m
• LEUKAEMIA & MYELOMA RESEARCH UK LTD income £554k
• BLOOD CANCER ALLIANCE income £121k
• Merseyside Against Blood Cancers income £119k
• VELINDRE UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST CHARITY income £4.4m
• DKMS FOUNDATION income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

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