CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK — grant history

Registered charity 298405 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£17.8m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£9.0m

Accounts grants total

£4.3m

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

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Grant applications are invited via our annual open funding call – details of our most recent funding call can be found here: https://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/funding-opportunities/2026-research-grant-call/

Summarised from www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk · www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/childhood-cancer-info/we-fund-research/ · www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/corporate-fundraising/ on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (8 grantees)
Education/training (4 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
Scotland (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
Kent (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Camden (1 grantee)
United States (1 grantee)
City Of London (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Newcastle University - Prof Steve Clifford	FY2024	£962k	Research into prevention and causes
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission	FY2024	£500k	Welfare
University of Nottingham - Dr Timothy Ritzmann	FY2024	£350k	Research into treatment
University of Oxford – Prof Adam Mead	FY2024	£350k	Research into prevention and causes
University College London – Dr Paul Maciocia	FY2024	£350k	Research into treatment
UCL GOS ICH – Dr Marc Mansour	FY2024	£350k	Research into prevention and causes
University of Nottingham – Dr Elizabeth Coyle	FY2024	£349k	Research into prevention and causes
University of Cambridge – Dr Manavendra Pathania	FY2024	£349k	Research into treatment
Newcastle University Centre for Cancer – Dr Debbie Hicks	FY2024	£344k	Research into prevention and causes
Newcastle University – Prof Julie Irving	FY2024	£337k	Research into treatment
University of Leeds – Prof Susan Burchill	FY2024	£332k	Research into treatment
University of Southampton - Dr Zoe Walters	FY2024	£329k	Research into treatment
Imperial College London – Prof Cristina Lo Celso	FY2024	£327k	Research into prevention and causes
University of Oxford – Prof Suzannah Williams	FY2024	£320k	Research into treatment
University of Glasgow – Dr Karen Keeshan	FY2024	£300k	Research into treatment
University College London - Prof Kathy Pritchard- Jones	FY2024	£299k	Research into treatment
University of Edinburgh – Prof Rod Mitchell	FY2024	£290k	Research into prevention and causes
Institute of Cancer Research – Prof Chris Jones	FY2024	£285k	Research into prevention and causes
UCL GOS ICH - Dr Owen Williams	FY2024	£269k	Research into prevention and causes
Azaylia Foundation	FY2024	£250k	Research into prevention and causes
Alice's Arc	FY2024	£250k	Research into prevention and causes
University College London – Dr Karin Straathof	FY2024	£232k	Research into prevention and causes
International Agency for Research on Cancer	FY2024	£176k	Research into prevention and causes
University of Sheffield – Prof Helen Bryant	FY2024	£148k	Research into treatment
University College London – Dr Jon Clayden	FY2024	£132k	Research into prevention and causes
Solving Kids' Cancer UK	FY2024	£125k	Research into prevention and causes
Spread A Smile	FY2024	£125k	Welfare
Bone Cancer Research Trust	FY2024	£125k	Research into prevention and causes
Newcastle University – Prof Anthony Moorman	FY2024	£122k	Research into prevention and causes
Institute of Child Health – Prof Katie Harron	FY2024	£117k	Research into prevention and causes
University of Birmingham – Dr Maarten Hoogenkamp	FY2024	£78k	Research into treatment
University College London – Prof Kathy Pritchard-Jones	FY2024	£69k	Research into prevention and causes
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health – Dr Srdan Rogosic	FY2024	£24k	Research into prevention and causes
Spread A Smile – Improving wellbeing of seriously ill and hospitalized children and their family members through entertainment and events.	FY2023	£500k	Welfare
Prof Adam Mead Characterisation of the cross talk between RAS mutant haematopoietic stem cells and immune effector cells in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukaemia	FY2023	£350k	Research into Treatment
Dr Marc Mansour Development of CCR9-targeting antibody therapy for paediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia	FY2023	£350k	Research into Treatment
Dr Elizabeth Coyle Establishing tumour microenvironment models of paediatric brain tumours	FY2023	£349k	Research into Treatment
Dr Debbie Hicks Radiotherapy-induced neurocognitive deficits in medulloblastoma: Human-equivalent modelling and randomised pre-clinical trials to identify effective pharmacological interventions for clinical application	FY2023	£344k	Research into Treatment
Prof Cristina Lo Celso Characterising and targeting the treatment resistant population in B-ALL following Inotuzumab Ozogamicin treatment	FY2023	£327k	Research into Treatment
Prof Rod Mitchell Transplantation of Cryopreserved Testicular Tissue to Restore Fertility after Childhood Cancer	FY2023	£290k	Research into Treatment
Prof Chris Jones Combined targeting of ACVR1 and cholesterol metabolism in diffuse midline glioma	FY2023	£285k	Research into Treatment
Dr Owen Williams MYB-directed therapy for paediatric AML	FY2023	£269k	Research into Treatment
Dr Karin Straathof Equipping CAR T cells with IL-12 to achieve durable tumour responses in neuroblastoma	FY2023	£232k	Research into Treatment
Dr Jon Clayden A tailored image guidance approach for children undergoing surgery for brain tumours	FY2023	£132k	Research into Treatment
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission - Paediatric Centres of Excellence	FY2023	£40k	Research into Prevention & Causes
Beads of Courage UK	FY2022	£3.0m	Welfare
Cancer Research UK	FY2022	£2.8m	Research into prevention and causes
Bone Cancer Research Trust	FY2022	£1.0m	Research into prevention and causes
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)	FY2022	£176k	Research into prevention and causes
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Charity	FY2021	£1.1m	The purchase of a high-throughput sequencing machine (NovaSeq 6000)
INSTINCT-MB: Strategic implementation of novel combination therapeutics for high-risk medulloblastoma	FY2021	£712k	Research into treatment
Beads of Courage - 2021	FY2021	£225k	Welfare
Bioinformatics support for primary bone cancer plus other childhood cancer studies	FY2021	£100k	Research into prevention and causes
British Neuro-Oncology Society Annual Meeting 2021	FY2021	£1k	Raising Awareness
International Family Nursing Association Meeting 2021	FY2021	£176	Raising Awareness

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 8963140 vs reference 4302006 (108.3% 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.