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Registered charity · Leicester

The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £628k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Leicestershire, Rutland
Website
www.hfcr.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£628k£813k
  • 2024£429k£525k
  • 2023£540k£671k
Earlier years
  • 2022£339k£1.0m
  • 2021£453k£345k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) THE PROMOTION AND UNDERTAKING OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, PROPERTY BIOLOGY DETECTION AND PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER AND TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, (B) THE RELIEF OF PAIN AND SUFFERING OF CANCER PATIENTS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPROVEMENT UPON MEDICAL OR SURGICAL PROCEDURES THROUGH THE STUDY OF CANCER AND ALL ITS RAMIFICATIONS BE THEY CLINICAL, SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC, (C) THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF INNOVATIONS FOR DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER

Grants received

1 grant · £3,000 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.

5.7y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

20.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Education/training 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 7Professional services 5Education 4

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£628k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

16.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 25.4 in 2021

5 from 4 in 2023
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1091480
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED ON 18 MARCH 2002 AS AMENDED 4 OCTOBER 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/11/2014 as amended on 02 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 04397137 · Active
Contact on the register
01162700101 · enquiries@hfcr.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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