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Macmillan Cancer Support vs Save the Children

Macmillan Cancer Support grades higher: A- against B+.

A-
Macmillan Cancer Support

Registered charity #261017

Give with confidence

The UK’s leading cancer-support charity, financially healthy, ran a clear surplus in its latest filed year, and reports cleanly.

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B+
Save the Children

Registered charity #213890

Give with eyes open

A large, reputable children’s charity that has reformed after a regulator-confirmed workplace-culture failure and ran a small deficit last year.

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The numbers

Side by side, from the accounts

Macmillan Cancer Support

Save the Children

Dec 2024

Year ended

Dec 2024

£246m

Income

£305m

£226m

Spending

£309m

1,782

Staff

910

11,634

Volunteers

3,351

11

Trustees

9

1 red, 0 amber

Flags raised

1 red, 0 amber

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.