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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £106,454 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds decreasing to £1,798,052. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: over £550,000 to cover the costs of an Annual Meeting (held: £1.8m)

“For this reason, the ACPGBI retains funds of over £550,000 to cover the costs of an Annual Meeting, which may fail due to factors outside the Association's control.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 08985903

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 31/12/2024)

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.4m

Reserves (reported)

£1.8m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~14.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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 (5.2%) (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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.3m	£1.4m
31/12/2023	£1.4m	£1.0m
31/12/2022	£1.2m	£1.0m
31/12/2021	£778k	£624k
31/12/2020	£583k	£656k

Common questions

Is THE ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £106,454 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds decreasing to £1,798,052. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sumer Audit.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ROBERT LUFF FOUNDATION LIMITED	2	£342k
SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST	2	£26k
THE INMAN CHARITY	2	£14k
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£13k
THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£13k
THE IAN FLEMING CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£7k
THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATION	2	£5k
PROJECT GIVING BACK	1	£84k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Bowel Research UK.

Bowel Research UK income £1.6m
ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £260k
CROHN'S & COLITIS UK income £8.4m
Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland income £506k
Association for Continence Professionals income £177k
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Bowel Research UK FY2025	£1.6m	more than £60,000	1	above	21.5%	no doubt
ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FY2024	£260k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CROHN'S & COLITIS UK FY2024	£8.4m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	above	—	no doubt
Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland FY2025	£506k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
Association for Continence Professionals FY2025	£177k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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