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Registered charity · London

Children With Cancer UK

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £18m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Children With Cancer UK
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£18m£14m
  • 2023£16m£12m
  • 2022£14m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2021£15m£9.9m
  • 2020£14m£15m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA OR ANY OTHER FORM OF CANCER (AND ALLIED DISORDERS) AND OF THEIR FAMILIES 2) TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE IN MATTERS RELATING TO LEUKAEMIA OR ANY OTHER FORM OF CANCER (AND ALLIED DISORDERS) AFFECTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, ALLEVIATION, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF LEUKAEMIA OR ANY OTHER FORM OF CANCER (AND ALLIED DISORDERS) AFFECTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Grants received

10 grants · £31,466 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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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.

6 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

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 7Other services 2Professional services 2

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£17.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

18.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.3 in 2020

42 from 55 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
298405
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 NOV 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 NOV 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 DEC 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 MAY 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 JUL 2016 as amended on 13 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 04960054 · Active
Contact on the register
02074040808 · info@childrenwithcancer.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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