THE GET A HEAD CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

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Latest income

£351k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£95k

Accounts grants total

£345k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

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What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2024

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2024
new	UK-wide head and neck cancer audit	—	£40k
new	Oracle Head and Neck Cancer UK Limited	—	£30k
new	Swallows Head and Neck Cancer Charity	—	£24k
new	Clare Mcaleer	—	£1k
not listed	University of Birmingham	£35k	—
not listed	University of Sheffield, School of Dentistry	£31k	—
not listed	University of Hull	£26k	—
not listed	Vancouver General Hospital	£5k	—
not listed	Royal Marsden Hospital	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
UK-wide head and neck cancer audit	FY2024	£40k	Co-funded a two-year feasibility study led by Professor Thomas Cowling to examine how patients with head and neck cancers are diagnosed and treated.
Oracle Head and Neck Cancer UK	FY2024	£30k	Research project in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London exploring disparities in head and neck cancer cases in Tower Hamlets.
Swallows Head and Neck Cancer Charity	FY2024	£24k	Expansion of Swallows support groups across the Midlands and employment of a dedicated lead to further develop services nationwide.
Clare Mcaleer	FY2024	£1k	Educational grant for advanced-level “Laryngectomy: Rehabilitation and Surgical Voice Restoration” course at Imperial College London.
University of Birmingham	FY2022	£35k	PhD Research Project salary continuation
University of Sheffield, School of Dentistry	FY2022	£31k	PhD research project laboratory consumables
University of Hull	FY2022	£26k	Research project: Evaluating Extracellular Vesicles Target in Graves' Disease
Vancouver General Hospital	FY2022	£5k	Advanced anterior skull base fellowship
Royal Marsden Hospital	FY2022	£2k	Multicentre prospective study investigating ctDNA as a biomarker in Advanced Thyroid Cancer

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 94700 vs reference 345149 (72.6% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.