Children with Cancer Fund (Polegate)

Analysis

Children with Cancer Fund (Polegate) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Polegate. It was registered in July 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Children with Cancer Fund (Polegate) reported income of £260k and spending of £297k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £158k to £260k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 160%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Children with Cancer Fund (Polegate) sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Save Me Trust (£260k), Arise Church (£260k) and The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust (£260k).