Blood Cancer UK Research

Charity number: 216032
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

We stop people dying from blood cancer; we make patients' lives better and we stop people from getting blood cancer in the first place. We achieve this by: * revealing how blood cancer works * driving smarter, faster diagnosis * inspiring new treatments and better care * being a voice of influence & championing patients' needs * building communities & sharing understanding

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Charitable expenditure

Charitable expenditure

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Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.

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Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity has one or more trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales
  • Scotland

Governance

Registration history:
  • 27 November 1962: Standard registration
  • 22 February 2017: Funds received from 1049851 THE PATRICIA MARY GAMMON TRUST
  • 21 August 2017: Funds received from 215399 DERBYSHIRE LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH FUND
  • 15 May 2019: Funds received from 802039 THE DOMINIC KING FUND
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
  • Blood Cancer UK (Working name)
  • LEUKAEMIA & LYMPHOMA RESEARCH (Working name)
  • LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH (Working name)
  • BLOODWISE (Previous name)
  • BLOODWISE (Previous name)
  • LEUKAEMIA & LYMPHOMA RESEARCH (Previous name)
  • LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH FUND (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

12 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Jean Liao Trustee 21 November 2024
ALBAN CITY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION
Received: On time
PAUL STRICKLAND SCANNER CENTRE
Received: On time
Megha Kansal Trustee 21 November 2024
None on record
Matthew Dominic WILSON Trustee 01 December 2023
None on record
Professor Claire Nicola Harrison Trustee 01 September 2023
None on record
Fraser Wilson Trustee 01 May 2023
None on record
Professor Christine Joyce Harrison Trustee 01 July 2021
None on record
Alastair Stirling Boyle Trustee 01 July 2021
None on record
Juliet Helen Hillier Trustee 01 July 2021
None on record
Claude Manuel Littner Trustee 01 July 2021
None on record
Louise Morgan Lai Trustee 19 January 2021
None on record
Amir Shah Sethu Trustee 19 January 2021
None on record
Jasmine Iona Handford Trustee 19 January 2021
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £14.46m £12.50m £13.27m £18.72m £18.46m
Total expenditure £10.73m £9.31m £13.53m £14.45m £16.77m
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A £761.00k £11.00k N/A N/A
Income - Donations and legacies £13.04m £10.02m £12.33m £17.01m £16.46m
Income - Other trading activities £576.00k £564.00k £421.00k £899.00k £416.00k
Income - Charitable activities £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Income - Endowments £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Income - Investment £239.00k £89.00k £55.00k £203.00k £1.03m
Income - Other £605.00k £1.83m £464.00k £605.00k £552.00k
Income - Legacies £6.13m £4.46m £4.62m £6.34m £5.70m
Expenditure - Charitable activities £4.73m £5.40m £8.44m £8.16m £10.80m
Expenditure - Raising funds £6.00m £3.90m £5.09m £6.29m £5.97m
Expenditure - Governance £90.80k £80.90k £37.00k £41.00k £36.00k
Expenditure - Grants institution £1.58m £3.94m £5.60m £5.27m £5.96m
Expenditure - Investment management £33.00k £39.00k £84.00k £67.00k £55.00k
Expenditure - Other £0 £0 £0 £0 £0

Assets and liabilities

Definitions for assets and liabilities
Own use assets

These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.

Long term Investments

Investments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.

Other assets

These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.

Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability

This is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.

Total liabilities

These are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.

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Asset / Liability 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Own use assets £7.38m £6.88m £646.00k £656.00k £458.00k
Long-term investments £0 £0 £20.39m £24.96m £29.37m
Other assets £27.94m £25.80m £6.99m £6.16m £5.62m
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total liabilities £24.50m £19.46m £15.04m £14.43m £15.27m

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 13 September 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 13 September 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 16 October 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 16 October 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 13 December 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 13 December 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 17 January 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 17 January 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 18 November 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 18 November 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Contact information

Address:
Blood Cancer Uk
Suite 31 Bonnington Bond
2 Anderson Place
EDINBURGH
EH6 5NP
Phone:
02075042200