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Latest income
£17.6m
Grants listed (FY2025)
19
Listed grants total
£4.6m
Accounts grants total
£4.8m

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
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
  • Scotland (6 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Kent (1 grantee)
  • Throughout England (1 grantee)
  • Camden (1 grantee)
  • United States (1 grantee)
  • City Of London (1 grantee)
  • Ireland (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newUniversity of Cambridge—£385k
newNewcastle University—£353k
newImperial College London—£350k
newUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health—£344k
newCRCTU University of Birmingham—£335k
newUniversity of Southampton—£317k
newUniversity of Bradford—£287k
newUniversity of Birmingham—£208k
upBONE CANCER RESEARCH TRUST£125k£250k
upSPREAD A SMILE£125k£250k
upSolving Kids' Cancer UK£125k£250k
not listedNewcastle University - Prof Steve Clifford£962k—
not listedTessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission£500k—
not listedUniversity of Nottingham - Dr Timothy Ritzmann£350k—
not listedUniversity of Oxford – Prof Adam Mead£350k—
not listedUniversity College London – Dr Paul Maciocia£350k—
not listedUCL GOS ICH – Dr Marc Mansour£350k—
not listedUniversity of Nottingham – Dr Elizabeth Coyle£349k—
not listedUniversity of Cambridge – Dr Manavendra Pathania£349k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
University of CambridgeFY2025£385kResearch led by Prof Suzanne Turner (Burkitt’s lymphoma)
Newcastle UniversityFY2025£353kResearch led by Dr Frederik Van Delft (drug resistance in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia)
Imperial College LondonFY2025£350kResearch led by Prof Anastasios Karadimitris (immune cell therapy for leukaemia)
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child HealthFY2025£344kResearch led by Dr Laura Donovan (medulloblastoma diagnosis)
CRCTU University of BirminghamFY2025£335kPHITT trial (optimising chemotherapy for children with liver cancer)
University of SouthamptonFY2025£317kResearch led by Dr Matthew Blunt (NK cell immunotherapy for rhabdomyosarcoma)
University of BradfordFY2025£287kResearch led by Dr Peter Nicholls (germ cell tumours)
Imperial College LondonFY2025£287kResearch led by Dr Anke Nijhuis (neuroblastoma mRNA vaccine)
Bone Cancer Research TrustFY2025£250kInvestment in research into paediatric bone tumours
Alice’s ArcFY2025£250kSupport for research into rhabdomyosarcoma and support for affected families
Spread a SmileFY2025£250kWelfare support
Azaylia FoundationFY2025£250kInternational initiative in rhabdomyosarcoma
Solving Kids’ Cancer UKFY2025£250kSupport for research into rhabdomyosarcoma and support for affected families
University of BirminghamFY2025£208kResearch led by Dr Maarten Hoogenkamp (T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia)
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation TrustFY2025£187kResearch led by Prof Shivaram Avula (imaging for ependymoma)
The Medical Research CouncilFY2025£176kGovernment grant funding for individual projects
Daniella Logum FoundationFY2025£96kWelfare support (playground opening for Bumblebee Ward at Hillingdon Hospital)
CLIC SargentFY2025£48kWelfare support
Children’s Leukemia Research FoundationFY2025£11kResearch into childhood leukemia
Newcastle University - Prof Steve CliffordFY2024£962kResearch into prevention and causes
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer MissionFY2024£500kWelfare
University of Nottingham - Dr Timothy RitzmannFY2024£350kResearch into treatment
University of Oxford – Prof Adam MeadFY2024£350kResearch into prevention and causes
University College London – Dr Paul MaciociaFY2024£350kResearch into treatment
UCL GOS ICH – Dr Marc MansourFY2024£350kResearch into prevention and causes
University of Nottingham – Dr Elizabeth CoyleFY2024£349kResearch into prevention and causes
University of Cambridge – Dr Manavendra PathaniaFY2024£349kResearch into treatment
Newcastle University Centre for Cancer – Dr Debbie HicksFY2024£344kResearch into prevention and causes
Newcastle University – Prof Julie IrvingFY2024£337kResearch into treatment
University of Leeds – Prof Susan BurchillFY2024£332kResearch into treatment
University of Southampton - Dr Zoe WaltersFY2024£329kResearch into treatment
Imperial College London – Prof Cristina Lo CelsoFY2024£327kResearch into prevention and causes
University of Oxford – Prof Suzannah WilliamsFY2024£320kResearch into treatment
University of Glasgow – Dr Karen KeeshanFY2024£300kResearch into treatment
University College London - Prof Kathy Pritchard- JonesFY2024£299kResearch into treatment
University of Edinburgh – Prof Rod MitchellFY2024£290kResearch into prevention and causes
Institute of Cancer Research – Prof Chris JonesFY2024£285kResearch into prevention and causes
UCL GOS ICH - Dr Owen WilliamsFY2024£269kResearch into prevention and causes
Alice's ArcFY2024£250kResearch into prevention and causes
Azaylia FoundationFY2024£250kResearch into prevention and causes
University College London – Dr Karin StraathofFY2024£232kResearch into prevention and causes
International Agency for Research on CancerFY2024£176kResearch into prevention and causes
University of Sheffield – Prof Helen BryantFY2024£148kResearch into treatment
University College London – Dr Jon ClaydenFY2024£132kResearch into prevention and causes
Spread A SmileFY2024£125kWelfare
Solving Kids' Cancer UKFY2024£125kResearch into prevention and causes
Bone Cancer Research TrustFY2024£125kResearch into prevention and causes
Newcastle University – Prof Anthony MoormanFY2024£122kResearch into prevention and causes
Institute of Child Health – Prof Katie HarronFY2024£117kResearch into prevention and causes
University of Birmingham – Dr Maarten HoogenkampFY2024£78kResearch into treatment
University College London – Prof Kathy Pritchard-JonesFY2024£69kResearch into prevention and causes
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health – Dr Srdan RogosicFY2024£24kResearch into prevention and causes
Spread A Smile – Improving wellbeing of seriously ill and hospitalized children and their family members through entertainment and events.FY2023£500kWelfare
Prof Adam Mead Characterisation of the cross talk between RAS mutant haematopoietic stem cells and immune effector cells in Juvenile Myelomonocytic LeukaemiaFY2023£350kResearch into Treatment
Dr Marc Mansour Development of CCR9-targeting antibody therapy for paediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemiaFY2023£350kResearch into Treatment
Dr Elizabeth Coyle Establishing tumour microenvironment models of paediatric brain tumoursFY2023£349kResearch 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 applicationFY2023£344kResearch into Treatment
Prof Cristina Lo Celso Characterising and targeting the treatment resistant population in B-ALL following Inotuzumab Ozogamicin treatmentFY2023£327kResearch into Treatment
Prof Rod Mitchell Transplantation of Cryopreserved Testicular Tissue to Restore Fertility after Childhood CancerFY2023£290kResearch into Treatment
Prof Chris Jones Combined targeting of ACVR1 and cholesterol metabolism in diffuse midline gliomaFY2023£285kResearch into Treatment
Dr Owen Williams MYB-directed therapy for paediatric AMLFY2023£269kResearch into Treatment
Dr Karin Straathof Equipping CAR T cells with IL-12 to achieve durable tumour responses in neuroblastomaFY2023£232kResearch into Treatment
Dr Jon Clayden A tailored image guidance approach for children undergoing surgery for brain tumoursFY2023£132kResearch into Treatment
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission - Paediatric Centres of ExcellenceFY2023£40kResearch into Prevention & Causes
Beads of Courage UKFY2022£3.0mWelfare
Cancer Research UKFY2022£2.8mResearch into prevention and causes
Bone Cancer Research TrustFY2022£1.0mResearch into prevention and causes
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)FY2022£176kResearch into prevention and causes
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital CharityFY2021£1.1mThe purchase of a high-throughput sequencing machine (NovaSeq 6000)
INSTINCT-MB: Strategic implementation of novel combination therapeutics for high-risk medulloblastomaFY2021£712kResearch into treatment
Beads of Courage - 2021FY2021£225kWelfare
Bioinformatics support for primary bone cancer plus other childhood cancer studiesFY2021£100kResearch into prevention and causes
British Neuro-Oncology Society Annual Meeting 2021FY2021£1kRaising Awareness
International Family Nursing Association Meeting 2021FY2021£176Raising 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 4634004 vs reference 4784621 (3.1% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].