Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AID (BCRA) 

The charity helps save lives by supporting the ongoing research into breast cancer, and contributing to the further understanding of the disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment by supporting ground-breaking research programmes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£141£143£-2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£121£123£-2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£76£50£26n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£77£53£24n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£55£42£12n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18£50£32£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

http://www.breastcancerresearchaid.org

info@breastcancerresearchaid.org

08006785869

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Medical education & research
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Scotland, 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 (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/04/2016, number: 1166674
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR17: 10 days late,
Main office

Kemp House
124 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG THOSE SUFFERING WITH BREAST CANCER BY THE SPONSORSHIP OF RELEVANT RESEARCH PROGRAMS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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