Common questions about The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy a good charity? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy scores 43 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy as a registered charity (charity number 1080343). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1080343&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's charity number? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's charity number is 1080343. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's charity rating? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy scores 43 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's total spending went to charitable activities. That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 17% of expenditure (2023); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy. The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy receive? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy reported £433k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-13). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy based? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's registered contact address is in London (SW11 5QL). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on cancer.
How much is The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy? +
The register records The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's trustees paid? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy: The Cancer Vaccine Institute Limited.
When was The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy registered as a charity? +
The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy was entered on the register on 14 April 2000. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03884777).
How does CharityCompare score The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.