UROSTOMY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1131072 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC047740 (OSCR)

The Association provides support, information and advocacy for people undergoing urinary diversion surgery of any kind. Support is provided via local Branches which hold regular meetings, production of a magazine three times a year and leaflets on relevant topics. There is also a helpline service.The Association also represents those with a urinary diversion.

Objects

3.1 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE UNDERGONE OR ARE TO UNDERGO A URINARY DIVERSION;3.2 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF URINARY DIVERSION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE;3.3 TO PROMOTE AND CO-ORDINATE RESEARCH IN CONNECTION WITH URINARY DIVERSIONS, THEDEVELOPMENT OF EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES RELATIVE THERETO, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH BY THE PROVISION OF LECTURES, FORA, AND THE PUBLICATION OF MATERIALS.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £104,277 for the year ended 31 March 2025, largely due to investment in strategic development. Total funds held at year-end were £309,350, with unrestricted reserves of £307,555. The trustees' report notes that income rose by 15.4% while expenditure fell by 26.6%, and the charity holds sufficient unrestricted reserves to operate for a minimum of one year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06918246

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Urostomy Association (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• THOMAS, Gillian Rosemary Clare — director, appointed 22/11/2025not on trustee list
• ECCLES, Guy Edward — director, appointed 22/05/2023on trustee list
• OGILVIE, Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• HOLMES, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/07/2021on trustee list
• BURDEN, William Robert — director, appointed 22/09/2018on trustee list
• ROSARIO, Derek James Patrick — director, appointed 28/11/2015on trustee list
• FRETWELL, Brian — director, appointed 16/11/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Fretwellchair
• Derek Rosario
• Elizabeth Anne Ogilvie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gill Thomas
• Guy Eccles
• Helen Holmes
• William Burden

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

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

Income and spending

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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 £533k
• Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland income £506k
• Association for Continence Professionals income £177k
• ILEOSTOMY AND INTERNAL POUCH ASSOCIATION income £343k
• ASSOCIATION OF STOMA CARE NURSES UK income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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