# CANCER RESEARCH UK

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1089464
- **Other names:** CANCER RESEARCH UNITED KINGDOM
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [04325234](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04325234)
- **Registered:** Nov. 23, 2001
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1089464


## Contact

- **Address:** Cancer Research UK, 2 Redman Place, LONDON
- **Postcode:** E20 1JQ
- **Phone:** 020 7242 0200
- **Email:** secretariat@cancer.org.uk
- **Website:** www.cancerresearchuk.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL FORMS OF CANCER, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINDINGS OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCER AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PRIMARY OBJECT, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND RAISE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS.

**Activities:** Cancer Research UK is dedicated to saving lives through research. Our mission is to prevent, control and cure cancer through our ground-breaking research and in the last 40 years our work has helped double survival rates. But there is more work to be done. The only charity fighting over 200 types of cancer, we rely on every pound donated to help get us closer to beating cancer.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine Eve Smaje |  | Oct. 30, 2024 |
| Dr Robert James Campbell Easton |  | Dec. 2, 2020 |
| Hitesh Thakrar |  | March 1, 2023 |
| JOANNE MARY SHAW |  | Sept. 29, 2020 |
| Lord Simon Stevens |  | Oct. 1, 2023 |
| Mark Philip Evans |  | Oct. 30, 2024 |
| PROFESSOR GERARD IAN EVAN |  | Oct. 4, 2022 |
| PROFESSOR NICHOLAS CLWYD JONES |  | Jan. 2, 2020 |
| PROFESSOR PAMELA RENATE KEARNS PhD FRCPCH |  | Jan. 1, 2021 |
| Professor Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell |  | Oct. 17, 2024 |
| Professor Doreen Ann Cantrell FRS |  | Oct. 4, 2022 |
| Professor Dr Reinier Harm Medema |  | Feb. 20, 2025 |
| Rakshit Kapoor |  | March 1, 2023 |
| Sarah Whitney |  | May 18, 2026 |



## Linked charities

- WAR ON CANCER (1089464-1)
- GIBB RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND (1089464-2)



