WORLD ENDOMETRIOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1116775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61931118

The World Endometriosis Research Foundation (WERF) is the global charity that provides a platform for scientists to collaborate in research and discovery in endometriosis to improve knowledge and treatments. WERF supports well-powered international multi-centre studies investigating disease mechanisms. WERF works with 81 institutions/centres in 33 countries on six continents.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ENDOMETRIOSIS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH(B) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. WORLDWIDE

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

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

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£9k
Latest spending
£29k
Registered
2006

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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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 22/06/2023, 22 days after the 31/05/2023 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 31/10/2022, 153 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£9k£29k
31/07/2024£17k£67k
31/07/2023£20k£36k
31/07/2022£31k£8k
31/07/2021£68k£8k

Common questions

Who funds WORLD ENDOMETRIOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WORLD ENDOMETRIOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£5kResearch