The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Support Group

Analysis

The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Support Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackpool. It was registered in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Support Group reported income of £121k and spending of £122k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £240k to £121k (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer Support Group sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hillingdon Hospitals Charity (£121k), Stand Against MND (£121k) and Blood Cancer Alliance (£121k).

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.