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Registered charity · West Sussex

The Mary HOW Trust for Cancer Prevention

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.maryhowtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Mary HOW Trust for Cancer Prevention
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£844k
  • 2024£997k£766k
  • 2023£739k£649k
Earlier years
  • 2022£834k£717k
  • 2021£454k£396k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A HEALTH SCREENING SERVICE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH THE AIM OF DETECTING ALL TYPES OF CANCER IN PARTICULAR, LIFE THREATENING DISEASES IN GENERAL, AND TO MAKE THIS SERVICE AVAILABLE TO ALL.2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN GENERAL HEALTH MATTERS AND IN THE PREVENTION AND DETECTION OF CANCER AND OTHER LIFE THREATENING DISEASES

Grants received

4 grants · £53,000 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.

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Board analysis for researchers

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.

7 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

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 7

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 9Professional services 5Finance 3

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£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

12.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.9 in 2021

19 from 18 in 2022
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
1122393
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 JULY 2007 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION 30 NOVEMBER 2007
Companies House
Company number 06324356 · Active
Contact on the register
01798877640 · contact@maryhowtrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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