Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE CANCER AWARENESS TRUST 

Our charitable activities focus on providing the public with essential information about cancer that they can easily understand and trust.Specifically, a digital interface where the public can derive an education about cancer, cancer treatments, cancer clinical trials and other such relevant information that will help the public make informed decisions about their health or those of their rela
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Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/10/22£256,346£260,737£-4,3910
31/10/21£19,055£31,781£-12,7260
31/10/20£842£16,432£-15,5900
31/10/19£61,488£40,215£21,2730
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

+44 7593 599648

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
  • DR JANE SMIT (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Life Sciences Adviser
  • SHARON JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity - Head Of Impact
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/12/2018, number: 1181054
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/10/2017, number: 11025298
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Risk management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Level 39
One Canada Square
London
E14 5AB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SAVING OF LIVES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WORLDWIDE BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:(I) FUNDING, CREATING AND MAINTAINING AN ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL PLATFORM TO PROVIDE DETAILED INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ALL TYPES OF CANCER;(II) ENABLING ACCESS BY THE PUBLIC TO EXTERNAL RESOURCES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND OTHER HEALTHCARE CHARITIES) RELATING TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ALL TYPES OF CANCER;(III) PROVIDING EXPERT INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSES AND TREATMENT OF CANCER;(B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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