THE BIG C APPEAL LIMITED — grant history

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Latest income

£3.2m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£54k

Accounts grants total

£54k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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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

Disability (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Norfolk (1 grantee)
Suffolk (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

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	FY2024	FY2025
new	University of East Anglia	—	£50k
new	3 undergraduates (Student Bursaries)	—	£4k
not listed	Norwich Medical School, UEA	£50k	—
not listed	School of Biological Sciences, UEA	£50k	—
not listed	The Pear Tree Fund	£15k	—
not listed	Student Bursaries	£8k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University of East Anglia	FY2025	£50k	PhD project: Cancer Nano-Therapeutics at Cell Interfaces
3 undergraduates (Student Bursaries)	FY2025	£4k	Student Bursaries
Norwich Medical School, UEA	FY2024	£50k	Investigating the immunosuppressive role of macrophage heparan sulfate proteoglycans in multiple myeloma
School of Biological Sciences, UEA	FY2024	£50k	Pre-mRNA splicing regulation in human cancers by snRNA modifications
Pear Tree Centre	FY2024	£15k	Final payment for support and information services
Student Bursaries	FY2024	£8k	Awards to 6 undergraduates
Priscilla Bacon Hospice	FY2023	£125k	Support for the construction of a new hospice accessible to cancer patients
University of East Anglia (via UEA) - Dr Andrew Beekman	FY2023	£50k	PhD project: Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer: Developing Small Molecule Leads for Immune Checkpoint Therapy Using Peptide Scaffolds
University of East Anglia (via UEA) - Dr Stephanie Schüller	FY2023	£50k	PhD project: Unravelling interactions of genotoxic E. coli with human colonic epithelium and the microbiome under physiologically relevant conditions
University of East Anglia (via UEA) - Dr Stuart Rushworth	FY2023	£50k	PhD project: Investigating the metabolic link between leukaemia and heart failure
University of East Anglia (via UEA) - Dr Amit Sachdeva	FY2023	£50k	PhD project: Designing novel biotherapeutics for effective and targeted treatment of cancer
Pear Tree Centre	FY2023	£30k	Annual payment to resource the Centre enabling it to provide support and information to those affected by cancer in the local area
Priscilla Bacon Hospice	FY2023	£1k	Travel costs for research grant
Priscilla Bacon Hospice	FY2022	£125k	support of the construction of a new hospice accessible to cancer patients
Pear Tree Centre	FY2022	£30k	annual payment for support and information
Boudicca Appeal	FY2022	£10k	grant for equipment
University of East Anglia	FY2022	£4k	Student Bursaries

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 54200 vs reference 54200 (0.0% 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.