Wessex Cancer Support

Analysis

Wessex Cancer Support is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Eastleigh. It was registered in June 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05416311). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Wessex Cancer Support reported income of £1.4m and spending of £2.1m, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £3.1m to £1.4m (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wessex Cancer Support sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Redthread Youth Limited (£1.4m), Gospel Standard Bethesda Fund (£1.4m) and Gloucestershire Gateway Trust (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 58%, donations and legacies 22% and charitable activities 20%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £96k. Charitable activities took 57% of spending and raising funds 41%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 67 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.