THE ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Registered charity 1118063 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ASSOCIATION OF COLPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Advance the science and practice of coloproctology; promote best clinical practice in coloproctology including the advancement of education and training; provide and disseminate information and advice to healthcare professionals and members of the public; promote the study of and research into coloproctology and facilitate the publication of the useful results thereof.

Objects

TO PREVENT THE SUFFERING OF PEOPLE WITH AND PREVENT OCCURRENCE OF DISEASE AND CONDITIONS OF THE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT TO INCLUDE ALL LESIONS OF THE SMALL BOWEL, LARGE BOWEL, RECTUM ANAL CANAL AND PERIANAL REGION BY:A) ADVANCING THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF COLOPROCTOLOGY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;B) PROMOTING BEST CLINICAL PRACTICE IN COLOPROCTOLOGY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS INCLUDING THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING;C) PROMOTING THE MOST EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE USE OF HEALTHCARE RESOURCES;D) PROVIDING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION AND ADVICE TO HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS RELATING TO COLOPROCTOLOGY;E) PROMOTING THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO COLOPROCTOLOGY AND FACILITATING THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £155,749 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,399,244 against total expenditure of £1,307,203. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,918,982, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of retaining over £550,000 to cover Annual Meeting costs. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 31/12/2023 (received 11/02/2025, 103 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 15/11/2023, 15 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08985903 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charlotte El-Sayed — President (source)
• Ioanna Drami — Vice President (source)
• Lillian Reza — Past President (source)
• Cheryl Hides — Chair (ACPN) (source)
• Linnet McGeever — Chair (ACPN Scotland) (source)
• Lizzie Fitzroy — Committee Member (ACPN East Anglia) (source)
• Rachel Perrott — Committee Member (ACPN East Anglia) (source)
• Liz Coni — Deputy Chair (ACPN) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THOMPSON, Fabienne Danae — director, appointed 10/02/2025not on trustee list
• STEVENS, Katie — director, appointed 13/11/2023not on trustee list
• HEDGCOCK, David Graham — director, appointed 01/01/2022not on trustee list
• GRAY, Christopher Stuart, Professor — director, appointed 06/04/2020not on trustee list
• TWELVES, Nigel, Dr — director, appointed 08/04/2014not on trustee list
• OLSSON, Laura Helen — secretary, appointed 20/04/2020

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Northumbria Primary Care Limited — Registered, 14 registered locations, 5 regulated activities, last inspected 24/11/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baljit Singh
• Dorin Ziyaie
• Dr Karen Patricia Nugent
• Dr Timothy Alan Cook
• JONATHAN PETER BELL
• James Hill
• James Wheeler
• Jennifer Louise Burch
• Maria Bentley
• Mrs Anne Demick
• Muhammad Najim Khan
• Nicola Eardley
• Professor Howard Lewis Young FRCS ChM

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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