Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

CANCERWISE

Cancer Support centre providing counselling, complementary therapies, specialist support groups and gentle exercise to cancer patients, children and family members in West Sussex and South East Hampshire. Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of people experiencing cancer.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
28/02/23£132£137£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/22£192£102£89n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/21£86£95£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/20£86£106£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/19£107£109£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/18£106£100£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/17£96£112£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/16*£109£101£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/15£75£109£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/14£90£99£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/13£84£77£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/12£60£72£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/11£157£56£100n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/10£44£43£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/09£41£42£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/08£38£40£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/07*£41£38£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/06£19£24£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/05£15£21£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/04£15£21£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 40 years

www.cancerwise.org.uk

enquiries@cancerwise.org.uk

01243778516

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£29,484
Sussex Community Foundation£12,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£7,500
CAF£2,880
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental health and wellbeing support for cancer patients and children
£10,000 18/08/2023
The funding will be used to provide counselling to cancer patients and their children. The project aims to improve quality of life and support the wellbeing of those coping with a cancer diagnosis or ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to CancerWise
£5,000 14/07/2023
Funding was provided for counselling and wellbeing sessions.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,500 20/09/2022
towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Cancerwise - 20/07/22
£2,500 18/08/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Relocation to Covid Safe Premises for Cancer Support
£9,333 27/05/2022
The funding will be used to relocate the organisation to another premises which is more COVID-safe. The project aims to enable CancerWise to provide a covid safe environment for cancer patients who ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/02/2022
Unrestricted grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling for Cancer
£6,996 27/05/2021
The funding will be used to expand the group's resource to provide counselling for young people affected by cancer. The project aims to provide advice and information and improve wellbeing.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to CancerWise
£3,500 19/11/2020
2
Funding was provided towards the cost of offering 175 hours of Telephone counselling over a three month period for cancer patients and their family members aged 16+.
CAF - Grant to CancerWise
£2,880 25/06/2020
3
Grant to CancerWise to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Centre Running Costs for Covid-19
£3,155 07/05/2020
12
The project will use funding to continue its cancer support service during the coronavirus pandemic. The project aims to continue supporting people living with cancer and their families.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to CancerWise
£3,500 21/04/2020
CancerWise clients are adults affected by cancer and their adult families and carers. They use a holistic approach to caring for our clients and offer a variety of services, all free: counselling; ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling for Cancer
£6,480 29/11/2017
12
This project will provide counselling to people with cancer and their families, with the aim of supporting them through diagnosis, treatment and beyond.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 59-77
  • ALISON KAY FOX Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee
  • CHRISTINE VIVIENNE GREEN Appointed: 2024
  • EMMA SUSANNAH LOCHHEAD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee
  • KEITH ROSS HARPER MITCHELSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • RICHARD MEREDITH (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chairman
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/12/1984, number: 290574
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/1984, number: 01803307
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 14 days late, AR07: 18 days late,
Main office

9-10 Dukes Court
Bognor Road
CHICHESTER
West Sussex
PO19 8FX

Objectives

(I) To advance public education in approaches to cancer therapy.(II) To relieve sickness, both physically and mentally, by the provision of counselling, complementary therapies and health education in a caring community for cancer patients and their families.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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