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Cancer Research UK

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC041666
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Dec. 22, 2025. Filing history
Registered
July 22, 2010
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
2 Redman Place
London
E20 1JQ

Contact

Website
cancerresearchuk.org
Screenshot of the Cancer Research UK website

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of health','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: 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.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 Dec. 22, 2025On time £734,753,802 £714,723,789 4,636
March 31, 2024 Dec. 16, 2024On time £684,207,447 £692,424,949 4,522
March 31, 2023 Dec. 4, 2023On time £718,793,137 £640,845,146 4,591
March 31, 2022 Dec. 20, 2022On time £668,369,451 £665,948,138 4,312
March 31, 2021 Dec. 14, 2021On time £582,083,475 £570,560,852 4,386

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.