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Registered charity · London

Cancer Research UK

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £735m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.cancerresearchuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cancer Research UK
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£735m£715m
  • 2024£684m£692m
  • 2023£719m£641m
Earlier years
  • 2022£668m£666m
  • 2021£582m£571m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL FORMS OF CANCER, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINDINGS OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCER AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PRIMARY OBJECT, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND RAISE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS.

Grants received

134 grants · £13,693,564 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance
12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 2General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 15Finance 10Professional services 10

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£734.8m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.9 in 2021

5169 from 4386 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
0%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1089464
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/07/2012 AS AMENDED ON 19 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 SEP 2020 as amended on 21 Oct 2020 as amended on 08 Oct 2025
Companies House
Company number 04325234 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7242 0200 · secretariat@cancer.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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