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Cancer Research UK vs RSPB

Cancer Research UK grades higher: A against B+.

A
Cancer Research UK

Registered charity #1089464

Give with confidence

The world’s largest charitable funder of cancer research, running a healthy surplus and publishing exactly how much of your pound reaches the science.

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B+
RSPB

Registered charity #207076

Give with eyes open

A serious conservation operator with real land and real outcomes, but a large membership machine where a meaningful slice of every pound goes to running the membership machine.

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The numbers

Side by side, from the accounts

Cancer Research UK

RSPB

Mar 2025

Year ended

Mar 2025

£735m

Income

£195m

£715m

Spending

£177m

5,169

Staff

2,486

26,000

Volunteers

13,000

14

Trustees

12

None

Flags raised

None

Each column shows the latest year that charity has filed, so the periods can differ. Spend ratios appear only where both charities disclose them at that level of detail. See methodology.