The Cancer Research Campaign

What is it famous for? The Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) is one of two rival charities that dominate cancer research funding in the UK — the other being the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF). But most British people are probably more aware of the CRC's charity shops, which are on almost every high street. How did it begin? In 1923, a group of clinicians, who felt that the work of the ICRF had reached a " dried up condition of stagnation " , founded the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research, the forerunner to the CRC. According to Sir Walter Morley Fletcher — who, in his capacity as first secretary of the Medical Research Council, coordinated all British medical research at the time — the founders of the CRC showed " almost avowed rivalry, not untinged by hostility " to the ICRF. This rivalry continues to this day, albeit less overtly. Does it have much money to give away?