Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

TENOVUS CANCER CARE 

The Charity has the general aim of identifying opportunities to fund high quality research into major cancers affecting men, women and children. In addition, Tenovus aims to provide psychological, psychosocial and practical financial help to people affected by cancer, to educate and raise awareness of cancer issues of both the public and healthcare professionals.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 28 years
(55 years as a company)

www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk

post@tenovuscancercare.org.uk

029 2076 8850

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£8,616£8,305£311£1,032£7,551£6,4879.42141,185
31/03/22£8,517£7,347£1,170£5,662£7,503£6,42510.5163940
31/03/21£8,139£6,991£1,148£5,122£6,026£4,9868.61541,300
31/03/20£8,687£9,781£-1,094£6,159£4,208£2,9503.62051,952
31/03/19£9,579£9,365£214£6,274£5,587£3,9665.11962,085
31/03/18£9,620£9,020£599£5,885£5,853£3,6004.82070
31/03/17£9,027£10,084£-1,058£6,225£5,257£4,4515.32180
31/03/16£9,311£10,673£-1,362£6,657£5,786£4,7035.32390
31/03/15£9,304£10,159£-855£6,369£7,497£5,4706.52240
31/03/14£9,223£8,985£238£5,831£8,058£6,75892050
31/03/13£8,540£7,746£794£5,359£7,713£7,06010.91870
31/03/12£8,552£8,309£243£5,706£6,365£5,9788.61750
31/03/11£8,311£7,595£716£5,297£6,229£6,0479.61680
31/03/10£7,883£6,826£1,057£4,847£5,256£5,2179.21530
31/03/09£6,593£7,030£-437£4,754£3,207£3,2005.51430
31/03/08£6,561£6,945£-384£4,615£4,749£4,7078.11550
31/03/07£5,948£8,661£-2,713£4,228£5,734£5,5957.81430
31/03/06£6,140£7,369£-1,229£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£6,275£7,418£-1,143£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£5,867£5,935£-68£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 49.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 9.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 214 employees
  • 1,185 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Co-Operative Group£36,775
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
Crowdfunder£2,227
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Llanelli Sing with Us Choir
£1,581 21/10/2023
Llanelli Sing with Us Choir is there to support people affected by cancer. It joins people together through singing, helping to prevent loneliness and isolation, and cope with the impact of cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bangor Sing With Us Choir
£1,598 21/10/2023
We would like to support local people affected by cancer. The funding will help cover the cost of rehearsals, performances and promotion of our choir, so we are able to reach more people locally.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Cardiff North Sing with Us
£2,079 21/10/2023
Cardiff North Sing with Us joins together people affected by cancer. In the wake of Covid we would like to connect isolated people in our community with what they need to cope with cancer's realities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing With Us Pontypridd
£1,254 21/10/2023
Our choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved or affected by cancer.
National Lottery Community Fund - UKP COST OF LIVING - Cancer Sharpens the Cost-of-Living Crisis: We Can Help
£10,000 17/01/2023
Tenovus Cancer Care in Cardiff will provide welfare benefits advice for people with cancer across Wales helping them to cope with the financial impacts of their illness and the cost-of-living crisis. ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wrexham Sing With Us Choir
£1,288 22/10/2022
Our Sing With Us Choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Llandudno 'Sing with Us' Choir
£1,435 22/10/2022
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music, we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bridgend Sing With Us Choir
£1,835 22/10/2022
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved or affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bangor 'Sing with Us' Choir
£1,368 22/10/2022
Our Sing With Us choir brings together people affected by cancer. Through music, we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Llanelli Sing with Us
£1,399 22/10/2022
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£2,227 05/05/2022
Covid response
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tenovus Cancer Care
£3,197 23/10/2021
We would like to keep our life-saving Mobile Support Units on the road so patients don't have to make long and stressful journeys to have chemotherapy treatment in hospitals.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing With Us Wrexham
£3,490 23/10/2021
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing With Us Camarthen
£3,319 23/10/2021
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tenovus Cancer Care 'Sing with Us' choir
£1,506 23/10/2021
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music, we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing with Us Llandudno
£2,222 23/10/2021
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing With Us Aberystwyth
£843 23/10/2021
Our Sing With Us choir brings people affected by cancer together. Through music we build friendships, reduce loneliness, offer comfort and provide support for those bereaved affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Cardiff North Sing with Us choir
£2,522 24/10/2020
Our Sing With Us choir brings people together through song, builds friendships, and provides support for people affected by cancer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sing With Us Wrexham
£2,771 24/10/2020
Money will help us to pay for venue hire for a year or more, and materials needed for choristers each week.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tenovus 'Sing with Us' Choir Llanidloes
£3,067 24/10/2020
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We aim to ensure the choir continues for at least the next three years, and to stage at least two performances per year for the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Tele-friend for those affected by cancer and our volunteers
£10,000 07/07/2020
12
Tenovus Cancer Care in Cardiff will offer a volunteer-led telephone befriending service for cancer patients and their families across Wales. £10000 will fund staff telephones recruitment and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£50,000 22/05/2020
Closer to Home: Care for People with Lymphoedema Following Cancer in Mid and West Wales
National Lottery Community Fund - Nurse-led CallBack service for cancer outpatients in Hywel Dda UHB Region
£10,000 30/03/2020
12
Tenovus Cancer Care in Carmarthenshire will provide a nurse-led telephone support service for cancer outpatients, their families and carers in the Hywel Dda UHB region. £10,000 will fund project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sing with Us choirs
£98,062 19/02/2019
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Four choirs will be set up in Shropshire and Herefordshire with this funding to support people affected by cancer, and their families. This will bring people together to make new friends and meet ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rhiwbina Tenovus Cancer Care
£3,280 19/11/2018
Funds will pay for our practice venue, refreshments and any other costs to keep the choir running for a year.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tenovus Cancer Care
£5,089 19/11/2018
Funding will pay for venue hire, song sheets, various materials and CDs for the choir to practice with.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tenovus Cancer Care
£5,667 29/11/2017
We want to provide free and local counselling sessions so that anyone affected by cancer has someone to talk to, in their own community.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£150,000 23/05/2017
Advancing Cancer Care
National Lottery Community Fund - Sing With Us
£50,000 21/04/2016
8
Sing With Us
National Lottery Community Fund - Tenovus Sing With Us Choir for your community
£982,637 29/03/2011
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This project will establish 15 new Sing for Life choirs for cancer patients over 50 years old, their families, carers, friends and those who have been bereaved through Cancer across Wales. This ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building a financial wellbeing for cancer patients across Wales
£457,137 25/05/2010
48
This project is to extend the welfare rights service provided by Tenovus, increasing the capacity of the present welfare support service in the existing areas, to take the welfare support service ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/03/1996, number: 1054015
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/12/1968, number: 00943501
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Tenovus Cancer Care
1st Floor Jones Court
Womanby Street
CARDIFF
CF10 1BR

Objectives

TO UNDERTAKE OR PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN:- 1) CANCER RESEARCH, PREVENTION AND PATIENT CARE; 2) THE RELIEF OF THE POOR; 3) THE RELIEF OF THE ILL AND THE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM AND TO RELIVE OTHERS WHO ARE DESERVING OF HELP IN ORDER TO RELIEVE A CHARITABLE NEED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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