80p of every £1 you give us is used to beat cancer: why The Sun’s article on our spending is plain wrong

Will you tell me how much your bored of directors get out of this per annum.

Which company actually carries out the research? If the public is contributing £500 million pounds a year then why are the NHS charged extortionate fees for them seeing that too is public money?

So you make £500million a year and still have no results in beating cancer and look no closer. I wonder why? Is it because the cancer treatment industry is worth 100 billion a year?

What about the men at the top being paid an extortionate salary and living in 1 million plus houses with no mortgage

Why is it online your success stories only consist of how much you have raised at your latest event, and not how many lives you have saved. Surely the latter would be more viable as a success story than monies gained.

not a lot to show for all the money raised

I have been a generous supporter of CRUK for the past 30 years. I feel that the work the organisation does is paramount to finding cures for cancer. However As with many of the other UK charities I am appalled to learn that the CEO earns £240,000 per year. He should hang his head in shame along with all the other fat cats. How far would all this money go towards developing new drugs rather than paying inflated wages. I am so disappointed to learn of this excess and will be cancelling direct debit so I can give my donation directly to another worthy cause.

Can “Cancer research” say which of it’s drugs are in the Top ten or even top twenty of the Drugs used by the NHS ??

Can you tell me why the Fat Cats are having very large pay increases when all the hardworking families including myself who can hardly feed and clothe themselves are raising money for something so close to our hearts because we need a cure and quick.
They need to hide their head in shame and give the money back and survive on a humble wage like the rest of us. Lets hope it doesn’t come knocking on their doors.
This puts people putting money out for your worthy cause, they don’t want to line their pockets. Why does the government keep refusing to give lifesaving drugs out because of the cost. Ridiculous!! Get it off the Fat Cats. I look forward to hear a response from one of them which I know I wont.

Gosh! A report from THE SUN fond to be questionable. One of my maxims is if it’s in the Sun or Daily Mail question its validity at once. Keep up your good work Cancer Research

I was one of those who sent a question in on the amount of my £1 went on research, 80p isn’t enough, like others have said no mention of the 25% back from the tax man. One area which has always been neglected is prostate cancer, it’s better now than it’s been but much more research needs to be done to catch this silent cancer before it take hold. What ever happened to the TV campaign a year or so ag??

A transparent and helpful report. It would have been intresting to see what the aggregate tax rebate is from gift aid covenants, and and an estimate for the aggregate of zero rating for vat on purchases made for medical research, which I imagine is of considerable importance to the recpients of your funds.

of all the millions of pounds u make still we see adverts of doom and gloom never ever showing which cancers u have beaten. u will never beat cancer too many high paid people will be out of work .

I think this is great, except that actually £1 of the £1 goes on fighting cancer because the cost of fundraising is part of running the organisation which fights cancer, its not like that money is being wasted, and without making this expenditure the organisation wouldn’t be doing any research at all.

DocMills/Kevin Hayes: While we don’t comment on the salaries of individual employees, you can read clearly on p46 of our latest reports and accounts – published on our website – the number of our nearly 4,000 employees who earn higher salaries. Many of these are the world-leading scientists who are helping us make huge progress against cancer, they run large research groups and institutes. Others are senior leaders in a complex organisation, operating in a challenging environment. As a leading medical research organisation we need to be able to attract, and retain, the highest quality staff, particularly in the scientific field.

Anne: here’s a graphical breakdown of what we spend on different cancer types (click it for a bigger version):

I must admit I was glad to receive this info. Some of my friends and family say I am mad to support any charity, as they believe most goes to admin. I must admit I did hear that a great amount was fairly recently spent on new swish admin headquarters. Not what I wanted to hear. Also was rather concerned to be told that the amount you spend (or give out to hospitals etc) is much less per head in Yorkshire than in London. That does concern me and I have been trying to find out more. If this is true I might consider switching my support to Yorkshire based cancer research.

Thanks for being so open. I never had any doubt about your integrity anyway, and your efforts have helped to keep me alive for the past 7 years. The Sun has made it’s self seem cheep trying to get publicity at your expense.

I would like to know the salary and benefits of the CEO. If it is £300k as reported , why?.Why does a charity need a top level CEO when there are any number of retired CEO’s who could fill the post for a fraction of the cost

Wether it’s 57p or 80p it’s invaluable to the millions of people who like myself have inoperable cancer! Keep on doing what you do !!! Thank you

How is the funding for research broken down into different cancers and how much is allocated for each?

In the interest of transparency, can CRUK publish the salaries of your directors and management?

I hope that CRUK will be going back to The Sun and insisting that they publish a corrective article. It is all very well telling everyone about the mistake on the CRUK website, but the readers of the website are not the people who need convincing!

I would never donate to CRUK because of the high salaries paid to its employees from Chief Executive down to rhe raft of managers etc etc. I know from ‘the horses mouth’ how much is spent on staff jaunts and high salaries. I support many charities including cancer research but definitely NOT CRUK!

Thank you for setting this out so plainly. I, like many others, am furious that the wretched rag that the Sun is, can get away with these sort of articles. I am so grateful on a personal level for all that CRUK do and for the honest and transparent way you report your research and your finances. What a waste of time and energy, not to mention funds, when this sort of sloppy and inflammatory reporting takes place.

Good old Sun. You might point out that having to spend time correcting their misinformation also detracts from funding research.