Women's Cancer Detection Society

Analysis

Women's Cancer Detection Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in August 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Women's Cancer Detection Society reported income of £74k and spending of £165k, spending 223% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £260k to £74k (-72%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Women's Cancer Detection Society sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lee and Bakirgian Family Trust (£74k), Yad Eliezer Trust (£74k) and Ceia (£74k).

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.