BASO-THE ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER SURGERY

Registered charity 1136067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Association is a membership association for members of the medical profession working with patients with cancer. It corresponds with its membership regularly to give them updates and information. It also runs a Scientific Conference annually, which features guest lectures, symposia and submitted abstracts. A more extensive programme of meetings is being developed.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE, PRACTICE AND ART OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PATIENTS WITH CANCER, AND2 TO ADVANCE RESEARCH, TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF TH0AT RESEARCH SERVICES AND BY FACILITATING PARTNERSHIP AND THE COOPERATION IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTORB THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION'VOLUNTARY SECTOR' MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONSA CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALESB VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £32,841 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £277,790 to £244,949. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £218,595, which exceeds the stated prudent target of £125,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07225131

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.

• HOLROYD, David — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• SALLAM, Ibrahim Mohamed — director, appointed 04/11/2024on trustee list
• KANATAS, Anastasios, Professor — director, appointed 04/11/2024on trustee list
• PETRALIA, Gloria Agata — director, appointed 04/11/2024on trustee list
• CUNHA, Melissa Oliveira — director, appointed 06/11/2023on trustee list
• ROY, Pankaj Gupta — director, appointed 06/11/2023not on trustee list
• TOMLINS, Abigail Tamsin — director, appointed 20/11/2022on trustee list
• AGRAWAL, Avinash — director, appointed 21/11/2021not on trustee list
• SKAIFE, Paul Gerard — director, appointed 21/11/2021on trustee list
• DESAI, Anant — director, appointed 23/11/2020on trustee list
• VAIDYA, Jayant Sharad, Professor — director, appointed 17/11/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Tomlins
• Anant Desai · trustee of 1 other charity
• Avi Agrawal
• David Holroyd
• Melissa Cunha
• Mr Ibrahim Sallam
• Ms Gloria Petralia
• Pankaj Roy Gupta
• Peter Szatmary
• Professor Adam Frampton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Anastasios Kanatas
• Professor Jayant Vaidya

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

Operates in: 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 ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY.

• ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY income £1.3m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH income £185k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ORAL SURGEONS income £445k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CYTOPATHOLOGY (BAC) income £61k
• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGEONS income £1.4m
• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED income £2.4m

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