Reg. Charity: 1206140
## **CancerWatch**
## **Annual Report 1[st] Oct 2024 - 30[th] Sept 2025**
Impact Policy, who had been supplying consultancy services to us, completed their contract in January and were replaced by Andrew Dixon, a charity worker and local councillor. He had already been supplying some part @me work for us, and took over the role. He has proved to be an excellent consultant for developing our policy requirements. Addi@onally, during the year, a number of online courses have been aCended to ensure the efficient running of the charity, included ones on Influencing Parliament; Making Office 365 Work for your Charity; and Management Accounts.
## **New Website** www.cancerwatchuk.org
The key objec@ve for the year was to update and modernise the website, make it more effec@ve and easier to use. A web designer, Ben Blankley of Charity & Biscuits, who specialises in websites for smaller chari@es was recommended to us by a number of other chari@es. Ben was duly engaged to undertake the work, resul@ng in a website that is now much more professional in its design and will be easier to use and update in the future. Accustomed to dealing with smaller organisa@ons, he also supplied a number of training videos which he had developed for his clients.
## **Cancer Preven@on Ac@on Week (CPAW) – June 2025**
Held in June, the CPAW was spearheaded by the Cancer Preven@on Research Fund which set the key message for the Week – the links between cancer and alcohol. Various lines were taken by other chari@es to remedy the misuse of alcohol – the implementa@on of Minimal Unit Pricing; various restric@ons on marke@ng; and greater restric@ons on sales. However, we decided as a small charity to concentrate primarily on campaigning for mandatory health messaging on all containers of alcohol, which was in the process of being enacted in the Republic of Ireland. A leCer addressed to the Secretary of State for Public Health was duly despatched as well as a leCer to the Food Standards Agency reques@ng that it should be the independent regulator for health informa@on on alcohol, contrary to the current situa@on of alcohol self-regula@on. It proved to be a good call, as in the event, it was one of the health improvements the Dept. of Health and Social Care decided to implement following the campaign, and is currently in the process of being implemented as part of the Na@onal Cancer Plan.
Other aspects of the campaign included: blogs; social media messages; adding our signature to other chari@es’ open leCers on the same subject, and poli@cal engagement.
As a result of our poli@cal campaigning for CPAW, Baroness Walmsley, a public health campaigner and chair of the Food Diet and Obesity CommiCee in the House of Lords requested a mee@ng with us during which we outlined our message and the issues involved.
## **Supermarkets:**
In June our Chair aCended the AGM of both Sainsbury’s and Tesco, with the assistance of ShareAc@on, and spoke strongly at their shareholder mee@ngs against the retailing of tobacco products in their stores. Tesco is the largest retailer in the UK and thus is almost certainly the biggest purveyor of tobacco products in the country. By law, they are not allowed to have tobacco on open display, but this also has the unfortunate side effects of making their tobacco sales invisible.
Although the Chair is campaigning on the strength of her personal holdings in Tesco and Sainsbury’s shares, she makes it clear that she is supported by CancerWatch as a charity. It is possible that in the near future it may be possible to turn the campaign into a Shareholder’s Resolu@on.
## **Obesity Health Alliance** www.obesityhealthalliance.org.uk **; Alcohol Health Alliance** www.ahauk.org; **Smokefree Ac@on CommiMee** www.ash.org.uk
We are ac@ve members of all three organisa@ons and contribute to their campaigning. The OHA is a coali@on of over 50 health chari@es and royal colleges. It campaigns for relevant legisla@on in Parliament which this year centred around the 9pm watershed for junk food for children. The AHA is a similar organisa@on working to posi@vely influence policies to reduce the misuse of alcohol. Possibly its main achievement this year was the acceptance by the Dept. of Health to put health informa@on on boCles of alcohol. The Smokefree Ac@on CommiCee, which is the campaigning arm of Ac@on on Smoking and Health has been a key resource for upda@ng us and campaigning for the Tobacco & Vapes Bill currently going through Parliament. Andrew Dixon aCends its mee@ngs on a regular basis.
## **Calls for Evidence and Submissions**
In October 2024 we responded to the Dept. of Health’s Call for Evidence for the NHS 10 Year Plan which focused on a) moving care from hospitals to communi@es b) analogue to digital c) earlier diagnosis and causes of ill health. In February 2025 CancerWatch took part in the Dept. of Health’s Call for Evidence for Shaping the Na@onal Cancer Plan (ul@mately published in Feb 2026). Only parts of it were relevant to CancerWatch’s agenda, but sec@ons on Preven@on and Awareness; Early Diagnosis; Research and Innova@on; Inequali@es; and Priori@es for the Na@onal Cancer Plan were submiCed by us.
## **JMC**
**February 2026**
**Financial Accounts - Year Ending 30[th] September 2025** Note: CancerWatch became a registered charity on 11[th] December 2023
||**Charity Commission Accounts**||
|---|---|---|
||**01/10/24 – 30/09/25**|**11/12/23 – 30/09/24**|
|Opening Balance|£0|£0|
|**Income**|||
|Donations:|£24,104.00|£20,821.00|
|**Total Income**|**£24,104.00**|**£20,821.00**|
|**Expenditure**|||
|Website development|£2750.00|£0|
|IT: Domain, Email, Microsoft 365|£454|£165.00|
|£431 (Mic365) + £23 (domain)|||
|Zoom Contract|£0|£156.00|
|Consultant Fees
|£19,900.00|£17,100.00|
|Membership Fees (OHA, AHA)|£1000.00|£1000.0|
|Fund Raising|£0
|£1200.00|
|Graphic Design and Printing|£0|£1200.00|
|**Total Expenditure**|**£24,104.00**|**£20,821.00**
|
|**Income less Expenditure**|**£0**|**£0**|
_CancerWatch Address for Correspondence: 8 Maunsel Street, London SW1P 2QL. Charity Reg. No.1206140_