WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND
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Cash
£3.8m
-57.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£6.6m
-6.5% vs 2024
Employees
58
+11.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£462k
-141.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,679,739 | £11,937,144 | -5.9% | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £1,108,597 | -£461,516 | -141.6% | |
| Net profit | £1,108,597 | -£461,516 | -141.6% | |
| Cash | £8,958,024 | £3,774,521 | -57.9% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,325,815 | £8,571,375 | -8.1% | |
| Net assets | £7,086,618 | £6,625,104 | -6.5% | |
| Equity | £7,086,618 | £6,625,104 | -6.5% | |
| Average employees | 52 | 58 | +11.5% | |
| Wages | £2,469,869 | £2,831,690 | +14.6% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £0 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 8.7% | -3.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 40.6% | 40.2% | |
| Current ratio | 4.49x | 2.92x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charitable company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”
Group structure
- WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND · parent
- WCRF (Trading) Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “We were also proud to launch CANDO, our most ambitious science programme in years, to better understand how analysing nutrition, body composition and lifestyle can make breast cancer care much better and kinder for every patient.”
- “Our relaunched website reached 1.37 million unique visitors - a growth of 52% - and our communications generated more than 8,500 mentions in media, including strong growth in our TV, radio and quality print newspaper coverage.”
- “Cancer Prevention Action Week (CPAW) 2025 was our most visible UK advocacy moment of the year and helped secure a renewed UK Government commitment on mandatory alcohol health warning labels.”
- “On 8 January 2025, WCRF purchased their office at 140 Pentonville Road, London for £3,200,000 plus £640,000 in VAT paid from free reserves.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REED SMITH CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2011-12-01 | — | — |
| COOPER, Ashley Ronald | Director | 2014-08-29 | Dec 1956 | British |
| HUNTER, Antoinette | Director | 2019-05-01 | Dec 1969 | British |
| MATHERS, John Cummings, Professor | Director | 2025-11-06 | Oct 1949 | British |
| POWER, Roderick | Director | 2019-05-01 | Dec 1966 | Irish |
| SINCLAIR, Alison Muriel | Director | 2015-03-06 | Jan 1953 | British |
| TRIEFUS, Graham Peter | Director | 2025-05-08 | Jul 1952 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RB SECRETARIAT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 2011-12-01 |
| BERMINGHAM, Philip | Director | 2002-09-27 | 2012-09-25 |
| BUNN, Jeffrey Hall | Director | — | 2023-08-03 |
| HARDWICKE, Joseph Philip Sebastian York | Director | 1996-10-08 | 1999-03-24 |
| HILL, Frank Nigel | Director | 2022-05-11 | 2024-10-31 |
| HUTSON, Melvin Robert | Director | — | 2004-09-25 |
| ISAACSON, Laurence Ivor | Director | 2002-09-27 | 2018-09-25 |
| MARSDEN, William | Director | 2002-09-27 | 2008-06-19 |
| MCCARTY, Peter | Director | — | 2020-09-22 |
| NEWELL JNR, Clois Frank | Director | — | 2007-02-26 |
| PEPPER, Susan Anderson | Director | — | 2025-09-23 |
| PRATT, Lawrence Dana | Director | — | 2012-12-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marilyn Kemper Gentry | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Lawrence Dana Pratt | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 154 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2025-05-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-06 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-07-05 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-07-03 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-09-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.