BOWEL DISEASE UK

Registered charity 1117241 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLORECTAL RESEARCH FUND

The charities objective is to finance areas of academic medical research to improve treatments and outcomes for patients with bowel cancer, Colitis and Crohn's disease through research programmes. Our research is based at St Georges hospital in Tooting, south west London.

Objects

3. APPLICATION OF INCOME. THE TRUSTEES MUST APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN FURTHERING THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS")(A) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO CROHN'S DISEASE, ULCERATIVE COLITIS, ANY OTHER INFLAMMATORY BOWEL OR FUNCTIONAL COLORECTAL DISEASE OR CONDITION INCLUDING IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME AND FAECAL INCONTINENCE, AND BOWEL CANCER (TOGETHER "BOWEL DISEASES"), AND BY PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;(B) RELIEVING NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM BOWEL DISEASES BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND HELP FOR PATIENTS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR DISEASE; AND (C) FUNDING, ASSISTING, OR CONTRIBUTING TO, ACADEMIC AND/OR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OTHER PROJECTS AIMED AT DISCOVERING OR IMPROVING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF BOWEL DISEASES AND AIMED AT FINDING OR DEVELOPING CURES OR TREATMENTS FOR BOWEL DISEASES.

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.

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Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£19k
Latest spending
£10k
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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

  • Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 1

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
31/03/2026£19k£10k
31/03/2025£15k£5k
31/03/2024£9k£6k
31/03/2023£8k£10k
31/03/2022£92k£2k

Common questions

Who funds BOWEL DISEASE UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BOWEL DISEASE UK as a grant recipient include AlixPartners (UK) Charitable Foundation.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
AlixPartners (UK) Charitable FoundationFY2023£1k
AlixPartners (UK) Charitable FoundationFY2022£1k