WORLD COUNCIL OF ENTEROSTOMAL THERAPISTS

Registered charity 1057749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORMA N GILL FOUNDATION, W C E T

The World Council of Enterostomal Therapists exists to further the expert professional nursing care for people with ostomy, wound or continence needs.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND REHABILITATION OF SICKNESS OF PERSONS WITH STOMAS, DRAINING WOUNDS, FISTULAE, INCONTINENCE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS OR POTENTIAL OR ACTUAL TISSUE TRAUMA.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports total unrestricted and restricted reserves of £206,813, with no individual funds in deficit. The trustees state that despite inflationary pressures on congress costs and incomplete restitution from a previous fraud case, they are satisfied with the financial performance. The accounts are unaudited and subject to independent examination.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 81.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kathleen Capitulo
• Dr Kimberly LeBlanc RN
• Dr Maria Angela Boccara de Paula
• Fiona Bolton

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Bahrain · Brazil · Canada · Chile · China · Colombia · Costa Rica · Croatia · Denmark · Finland · France

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION OF STOMA CARE NURSES UK.

• ASSOCIATION OF STOMA CARE NURSES UK income £120k
• WORLD CONFEDERATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY income £3.6m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.3m
• WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL income £5.8m
• WORLD DEMENTIA COUNCIL income £318k
• Association for Continence Professionals income £177k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.