Macmillan Cancer Support held its annual ball inside the Victoria and Albert Museum in November 2025, and the night raised £475,000.
Macmillan Cancer Support, one of Britain’s largest cancer charities, held its annual ball at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington on Thursday 20 November 2025. The ball is the flagship evening of its fundraising year.
Douglas Macmillan founded the charity in 1911 at Castle Cary in Somerset, after his father died of cancer. It began as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, became the National Society for Cancer Relief in 1924 and took the Macmillan name in 1989.
Its work is support for life with a diagnosis. Macmillan nurses work in hospitals, hospices and the community, and a free support line puts callers through to specialist nurses and money advisers. In 2024 its services reached an estimated 2.4 million people affected by cancer.
The V&A on Cromwell Road has become the ball’s home. The evening is where the charity meets the donors who can fund that work at scale.
The 2025 ball opened with a Champagne reception, followed by a three-course black-tie dinner. Live and silent auctions led into the after party. The night raised £475,000 for people living with cancer and those close to them.