Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust

Analysis

Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in December 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02333474). It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust reported income of £864k and spending of £781k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £570k to £864k (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Doughty Charity Trust (£863k), British Psychoanalytic Council (£865k) and The Bridge Central (£863k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 91%, trading 8.1% and investments 1.2%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £358k. Charitable activities took 88% of spending and raising funds 11%. Reserves of £6.9m would cover about 105 months of spending at that rate. It employed 7 people.