About us

Breast Cancer UK wants to reduce breast cancer rates by reducing everyone’s exposure to the cancer causing and hormone disrupting chemicals that accumulate in our bodies and seriously affect our health.

• We challenge policy makers to eliminate the hazardous environmental pollutants that are an underlying cause of the rising incidence of breast cancer
• We call on the Government to include environmental pollutants and other hazardous chemicals as risk factors in its National Cancer Plan and latest Cancer Reform Strategy
• We pressure retailers not to sell products that contain cancer causing and hormone disrupting chemicals
• We work with scientists that are spearheading world class research into the many risks and impacts of cancer causing and hormone disrupting chemicals

Formed in April 1999, we became a registered charity in August 2001. Since then, we have grown rapidly. Today, we work across UK and Europe through funders, networks and the European Parliament.

Our Trustees

Clare Dimmer – was originally Secretary to BCUK from it’s inception and then became Chair when Di Ward stepped down in 2007. Clare has many years of environmental campaigning and breast cancer advocacy experience after working collaboratively with UNISON, Women’s Environmental Network, and other organisations to get the pesticide, Lindane, banned in 2000 and, most recently,  BPA in babies bottles.

Gwynne Wallis

Jenine Langrish - has a degree in economics and is passionate about environmental and development issues. She worked for HSBC's asset management division for nearly 24 years, most recently as a senior member of the charities team, before leaving in October 2008 to devote more time to charity sector work. Jenine is also a director of Town and Country Housing Group, a director of Fairpensions, a member of the Finance and Audit committee of Christian Aid and a member of the investment committee of Action of Hearing Loss.

Kevin Dimmer
Shilpa Nanavati
Sam Wiseman

Our management team

Geoff Page - Fundraising Manager
Geoff worked with IBM before moving into the voluntary sector in 1992. Since then, he has worked as a Development Manager for a charity that supports pre-school deaf children and their parents and as a hospice nurse. He became Director of Fundraising at the hospice before joining Breast Cancer UK.

Matilda Bradshaw – Senior Strategic Communications Advisor
Matilda has twenty years of experience specialising in campaign communications for the voluntary sector, focusing on health and the environment. She joins us from Greenpeace, where she was International Communications Manager.

Breast Cancer UK is an independent charity.  We do not receive grants from Government, but rely on support and help from the community we serve. Join us and help prevent breast cancer.