Mission
Cancer Research UK is dedicated to saving lives through research. Our mission is to prevent, control and cure cancer through our ground-breaking research and in the last 40 years our work has helped double survival rates. But there is more work to be done. The only charity fighting over 200 types of cancer, we rely on every pound donated to help get us closer to beating cancer.
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/07/2012 AS AMENDED ON 19 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 SEP 2020 as amended on 21 Oct 2020 as amended on 08 Oct 2025
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL FORMS OF CANCER, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINDINGS OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF CANCER AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PRIMARY OBJECT, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND RAISE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS.

