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Registered charity · London

Macmillan Cancer Support

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £246m (2024)
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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.macmillan.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Macmillan Cancer Support
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£246m£226m
  • 2023£233m£265m
  • 2022£227m£252m
Earlier years
  • 2021£231m£234m
  • 2020£195m£148m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CANCER; TO FURTHER AND BUILD CANCER AWARENESS, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; TO PROMOTE AND INFLUENCE EFFECTIVE CARE, INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CANCER

Grants received

145 grants · £2,099,873 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.

11 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Disability 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 15Professional services 5Tech and media 4

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£245.5m 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.3 in 2020

1782 from 1754 in 2020
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
261017
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/06/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/06/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/06/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/07/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 JUL 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 JUL 2014 as amended on 25 Jul 2019
Companies House
Company number 02400969 · Active
Contact on the register
02078407840 · contactus@macmillan.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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