It also provides information about cancer and runs campaigns aimed at raising awareness and influencing public policy.

It raises money through donations, legacies, community fundraising, events, retail and corporate partnerships.

[9] Its flagship laboratories formerly at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, and Clare Hall, Hertfordshire, and known as the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, are now part of the Francis Crick Institute.

[2] The British Empire Cancer Campaign (BECC) was founded in 1923, and initially drew a hostile response from ICRF and the Medical Research Council, who considered it a rival.

Centre status is awarded to locations performing the highest quality cancer research, to provide funds for equipment and training.

Income sources include: On 18 July 2012, it was announced that Cancer Research UK was to receive its largest single donation of £10 million from an anonymous donor.

[42] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, CRUK closed its shops and cancelled mass participation fundraising events.

[43] In June 2011, Cancer Research UK was one of several health charities (along with the British Heart Foundation, the Alzheimer's Society and Parkinson's UK) targeted by the animal rights organisation Animal Aid in a series of advertisements in British newspapers urging members of the public to stop giving donations to organisations that fund medical research involving animal experiments.