THE UROLOGY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1128683 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30273242 · Wikipedia

The Foundation uses its funds to raise the standard of treatment and management of urological diseases and of research in UK and Ireland by funding educational, training programmes and research posts.The Foundation aims to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of urological disease through the development and support of medical education, training, and sponsorship of scientific research.

Objects

TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OFUROLOGY, UROLOGICAL SURGERY AND THE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ANDALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THAT BRANCH OF SCIENCE ANDMEDICINE AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO FUND, AID, MAINTAIN AND ENDOW SCHOLARSHIPS,FELLOWSHIPS, CHAIRS AND BURSARIES AND GENERALLY TO ASSIST IN THE FUNDING, INSTRUCTIONAND SUPPORT OF PERSONS AND INSTITUTIONS ENGAGED OR INVOLVED IN UROLOGICAL RESEARCHWORK.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,746,333, which is above its stated minimum liquidity target of £500,000. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations. The charity reports a net expenditure for the year, funded by incoming resources and investment gains.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Urology Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mary Garthwaitechair
• Angela Daniel
• Ben Challacombe
• Hannah Warren
• Hilary Baker
• Juliana Taylor
• Kieran O'Flynn
• Mark Becker
• Michael Griggs

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED.

• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED income £2.4m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL NURSES income £531k
• BJU INTERNATIONAL income £1.2m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PAEDIATRIC UROLOGISTS income £61k
• UPP FOUNDATION income £118k
• THE AORTIC CENTRE TRUST income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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