--- title: "Prostate Cancer UK vs Prostate Cancer Research" description: "Prostate Cancer UK vs Prostate Cancer Research compared: research, specialist nurses and campaigning vs a smaller research and patient-information charity." source: https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/compare/prostate-cancer-uk-vs-prostate-cancer-research retrieved: 2026-10-23T14:58:23.247Z date_note: "Retrieval time is not the filing, register-extract or editorial-review date; cite those dates from the content." license: "Charity data © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0" --- [PC](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-uk) [PROSTATE CANCER UK](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-uk) 83/100 4★ Reg. 1005541 compared with [PC](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-research) [PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-research) 75/100 4★ Reg. 1156027 # Prostate Cancer UK vs Prostate Cancer Research **In short:** Prostate Cancer UK funds research, runs a free Specialist Nurses service and campaigns across the UK. Prostate Cancer Research is a smaller charity funding research and patient information, including its infopool website. Last reviewed 23 October 2026 by CharityCompare editorial. The names are close, but these are separate charities of different size. Prostate Cancer UK awarded £11.6 million through its core research funding rounds in 2024/25, and its nurses answered questions more than 14,000 times. Prostate Cancer Research listed £1,075,607 of research grants that year and points people to other organisations, including Prostate Cancer UK, for nurse support. ## Prostate Cancer UK vs Prostate Cancer Research: key differences | What to compare | PROSTATE CANCER UK | PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH | | --- | --- | --- | | Registered work and operating model | Research funding, a Specialist Nurses service, information and campaigning for men with prostate cancer. | Research funding and patient information, including its infopool website and a patient data platform. | | What to consider | Research awards are commitments paid over time: in 2024/25 it paid £6,821,000 in grants and had £45,255,000 committed at year end. Its annual report and impact report give different Risk Checker totals, 1.1 million and 1.5 million men. | Its research grants are on a much smaller scale than Prostate Cancer UK’s, and its accounts give two different prior-year charitable spending totals. In 2024/25 it wrote off £744,000 owed by its US entity, PCR Inc. | | Access and practical checks | Its Specialist Nurses can be reached by phone, live chat, email or WhatsApp without booking; they cannot see medical notes or give medical advice. The service is free and open to men across the UK and their families. | For nurse support, its help page signposts to Prostate Cancer UK’s Specialist Nurse Services, Macmillan and others. Its infopool website offers information created by and for people with prostate cancer. | | Sourced result or evidence gap | More than 14,000: Times its Specialist Nurses answered questions. 2024/25. Contacts, not individual men, and charity-reported; its £11.6 million of research awards is a financial input, not a health outcome. | A quarter of a million: People who have used its infopool since its 2023 launch, with almost 200 hospitals signposting to it by 2025. A cumulative, charity-reported usage figure rather than a health outcome. | ## What the latest filings show Figures from the accounts held in our dated dataset; the live register may contain newer filings. Ratios can span multiple years, as labelled. Clarity scores use our [methodology](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/methodology). Cost to raise £1 of donations is not part of the score; legacies make it lumpy, and it is withheld where trading costs would distort it ([how it works](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/methodology#cost-to-raise)). | Metric | PROSTATE CANCER UK | PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH | | --- | --- | --- | | Latest accounts year in our snapshot | 2025 | 2025 | | Financial snapshot refreshed | 2026-09-06 | 2026-09-06 | | Ratio reporting window | 3-yr avg | 3-yr avg | | Overall score | 83/100 (4★) | 75/100 (4★) | | Accountability & Finance | 100/100 | 75/100 | | Spend on charitable activities | 75% of expenditure | 69% of expenditure | | Fundraising efficiency | £4.0 total income per £1 fundraising (2023–2025, disclosed years) | £3.0 total income per £1 fundraising (2023–2025, disclosed years) | | Cost to raise £1 of donations | 26p per £1 (2025) · 26p over 2023–2025 | 39p per £1 (2025) · 33p over 2023–2025 | | Latest income | £46m | £5.2m | | Fundraising spend | 25% of expenditure | 31% of expenditure | | Reserves | 9 months | 3 months | | Accounts filing | On time | Late | | Data confidence | high | medium | | Charity number | 1005541 | 1156027 | [PROSTATE CANCER UK on the register](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1005541&subId=0) · [PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH on the register](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1156027&subId=0) ## Considering Prostate Cancer UK - You want to fund a mix of research, nurse-led support and campaigning across the UK. - You want to support a free nurse service that men and families can contact without booking. [Full profile →](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-uk) ## Considering Prostate Cancer Research - You want to fund research and patient information through a smaller charity. - You are interested in its work with groups at higher risk, including Black men, and its racial disparities research programme. [Full profile →](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/charity/prostate-cancer-research) ## Prostate Cancer UK vs Prostate Cancer Research: questions answered ### Prostate Cancer UK or Prostate Cancer Research: which should I support? There is no universal winner. Prostate Cancer UK combines research funding, a Specialist Nurses service and campaigning; Prostate Cancer Research funds research and patient information on a smaller scale. Choose the work you want to fund, then check the accounts period. A financial rating is not an impact assessment. ### Are Prostate Cancer UK and Prostate Cancer Research the same charity? No. Prostate Cancer UK is charity 1005541 (also SC039332 in Scotland), and Prostate Cancer Research is charity 1156027, a charitable incorporated organisation. Prostate Cancer UK also owns a dormant company called Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, which is not the charity Prostate Cancer Research. ### Do Prostate Cancer UK and Prostate Cancer Research work together? Both say they provide the joint secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on prostate cancer, launched in January 2025. Prostate Cancer Research’s help page also signposts people to Prostate Cancer UK’s Specialist Nurse Services. 100 How we score charities + The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically. [Full methodology →](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/methodology) Accountability & Transparency Scored from filings 40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10). Financial Health Scored from filings 30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises). Financial Efficiency Scored from filings 20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below). Community Support Scored from filings 10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio. Overall score Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated. [Compare these charities side-by-side](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/compare-charities?ids=prostate-cancer-uk,prostate-cancer-research) [Back to compare](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/compare-charities) **Information only** — not donation advice. We do not tell you where to give. Sources: [Prostate Cancer UK: Registered activities, identity and accounts](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1005541&subId=0), [Prostate Cancer UK: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25](https://prostatecanceruk.org/media/3ksfblmm/annual-report-2024-2025.pdf), [Prostate Cancer UK: Impact Report 2024/25](https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/reports-and-reviews/our-impact-2024-25), [Prostate Cancer UK: About the Specialist Nurses service](https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/get-support/our-specialist-nurses/about-our-service), [Prostate Cancer Research: Registered activities, identity and accounts](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1156027&subId=0), [Prostate Cancer Research: Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements 2024/25](https://www.prostate-cancer-research.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PCR-Annual-Report-25.pdf), [Prostate Cancer Research: Prostate cancer help page](https://www.prostate-cancer-research.org.uk/prostate-cancer-help/). See also [how we score](https://charitycompare.pages.dev/compare-charities#how-we-score).