THE CHRONIC DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Charity number: 1186102
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The CDRF, an independent medical research charity, funds a range of research programs that aim to discover the cause of common chronic diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, migraine, asthma, dementia. The CDRF runs many projects at the Department of Twin Research, St Thomas' Hospital. It is hoped the research will contribute to the development of future diagnostic tests and treatments.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 05 April 2025
Total income: £214,353
Total expenditure: £946,991
People
6 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any 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:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who the charity helps:
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout London
Governance
Registration history:
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- CDRF (Working name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease 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
6 Trustee(s)
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| Mark Daniel Benjamin Simon | Chair | 09 September 2019 |
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| Dr Andrew John Walley | Trustee | 11 May 2023 |
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| Jonathan Ross | Trustee | 21 November 2022 |
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| Dr Elena Georgieva Bochukova | Trustee | 17 October 2019 |
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| Nicholas Pike | Trustee | 16 October 2019 |
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| MICHAEL BENAIM | Trustee | 16 October 2019 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 05/04/2021 | 05/04/2022 | 05/04/2023 | 05/04/2024 | 05/04/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £3.22m | £480.97k | £791.33k | £4.36m | £214.35k | |
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Total expenditure | £690.35k | £1.82m | £1.37m | £1.37m | £946.99k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £3.20m | N/A | £760.32k | £4.18m | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £17.53k | N/A | £31.01k | £178.92k | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £643.69k | N/A | £1.37m | £1.36m | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £46.66k | N/A | £7.40k | £5.56k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £62.81k | N/A | £28.28k | £18.98k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £580.87k | N/A | £1.31m | £1.31m | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | £7.40k | £5.56k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | £0 | £0 | N/A |
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 |
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| Annual return | 05 April 2025 | 20 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2025 | 20 October 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2024 | 18 November 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2024 | 18 November 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2023 | 23 November 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2023 | 23 November 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2022 | 08 December 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2022 | 08 December 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 05 April 2021 | 09 November 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 05 April 2021 | 09 November 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |