Common questions about Yorkshire Cancer Research's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Yorkshire Cancer Research a good charity? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 72% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. 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 Yorkshire Cancer Research a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Yorkshire Cancer Research as a registered charity (charity number 516898). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=516898&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 Yorkshire Cancer Research's charity number? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research's charity number is 516898. 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 Yorkshire Cancer Research's charity rating? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research scores 84 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). 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 Yorkshire Cancer Research have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Yorkshire Cancer Research. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Yorkshire Cancer Research? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 72% of Yorkshire Cancer Research's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). 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 Yorkshire Cancer Research's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 28% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 29% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Yorkshire Cancer Research. Yorkshire Cancer Research's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Yorkshire Cancer Research receive? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research reported £28m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Yorkshire Cancer Research's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Yorkshire Cancer Research based? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research's registered contact address is in Harrogate (HG2 8PA). It tells the regulator it operates in Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City, Bradford City, Kirklees, Leeds City, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Yorkshire Cancer Research's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Yorkshire Cancer Research's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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.
Where does Yorkshire Cancer Research's money come from? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research reported £28m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £17m (63%), donations and legacies £5.4m (20%), investments £3.1m (11%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Yorkshire Cancer Research? +
The register records Yorkshire Cancer Research 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 Yorkshire Cancer Research's trustees paid? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Yorkshire Cancer Research previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Yorkshire Cancer Research: Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign; Active Against Cancer.
When was Yorkshire Cancer Research registered as a charity? +
Yorkshire Cancer Research was entered on the register on 23 October 1985. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01919823).
How does CharityCompare score Yorkshire Cancer Research? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Yorkshire Cancer Research'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 Yorkshire Cancer Research'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.