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Registered charity · North Yorkshire

Yorkshire Cancer Research

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £28m (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
Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City, Bradford City and more
Website
www.ycr.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Cancer Research
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£28m£22m
  • 2024£32m£23m
  • 2023£33m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£26m£13m
  • 2021£20m£13m
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES BY UNDERTAKING OR PROMOTING RESEARCH AND OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES IN THE YORKSHIRE REGION OR ELSEWHERE TO HELP PEOPLE AVOID SURVIVE OR COPE WITH CANCER.

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.

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

12
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 15

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 14Health and social care 13Business services 10

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£27.7m 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.

12.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.6 in 2021

150 from 52 in 2021
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.
0%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
516898
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/06/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/11/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/04/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/09/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/09/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/09/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/12/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 SEP 2016 as amended on 05 May 2022
Companies House
Company number 01919823 · Active
Contact on the register
01423 501269 · hq@ycr.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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