How your donations help beat cancer

For every £1 donated, 80 pence is available to spend on our work to beat cancer. We receive no government funding for our research.

We spent £332 million on our annual research activity in 2010/11. In almost every type of cancer, we fund more research than any other organisation in the UK.

We need to make sure nothing slows down the tremendous progress we’re making. Whilst we make the best use of every pound we raise, each year we receive a growing number of outstanding research proposals that we cannot afford to fund.

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37% of our annual research activity is on laboratory studies into the biology of cancer. This underpins advances in all types of cancer

We also spent £16 million on our cancer information and influencing work, raising awareness of cancer risks and symptoms, providing information to people affected by cancer and influencing health policies during 2010/11.

See our Annual Review for an overview of our finances or our Annual Report and Accounts for more detailed information on our financial performance.