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Registered charity · Norwich

The BIG C Appeal Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.big-c.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The BIG C Appeal Limited
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.4m£3.5m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.1m£2.8m
  • 2021£3.1m£2.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO CONDUCT, SUPPORT, PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH OR BEARING ON THE CAUSES, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCER WITHIN THE U. K. OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCER IN HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THER OF.

Grants received

8 grants · £197,309 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.

4.7y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
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 9

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 10Arts and leisure 3Professional services 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.2 in 2020

94 from 77 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
281730
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH SEPTEMBER 1980 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION PASSED 8 JULY 1993 as amended on 25 May 2022
Companies House
Company number 01521441 · Active
Contact on the register
01603619900 · enquiries@big-c.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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