Bowel Research UK

Registered charity 1186061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOWEL CANCER & DISEASE RESEARCH CHARITY CIO

The charity is set up to achieve the advancement of health and saving of lives by supporting medical research. Our grant funding will focus on diseases that fall within the field of coloproctology, including diseases of the small and large intestine and those of the anus. We want to fund the best research and support early career researchers.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE AS FOLLOWS:THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FORA) THE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH INTO BOWEL CANCER AND OTHER BOWEL DISEASES AND THE PUBLICATION OF USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; ANDB) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION RELATING TO BOWEL CANCER AND OTHER BOWEL DISEASESIN EACH CASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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 free/unrestricted reserves were £1,669,699, which the Trustees confirm equates to over 12 months of operating costs, satisfying their stated reserves policy. The charity reported a net income increase of £544,037 for the year, driven largely by a significant rise in legacy income, while total expenditure decreased compared to the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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

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 — Bowel Research UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kathryn Pretzel-Shiels — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Syncona Foundation — “The Syncona Foundation enabled us to fund an extra PhD in 2023.” (source page)
• UKRI — “The MRC fund was one of our biggest funders of research via the UK Government COVID Medical Research Charity Support Fund.” (source page)
• Apollo — “Apollo funded an event and film for the Bowel Research UK Microbiome Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.” (source page)
• Chuckling Goat — “Chuckling Goat funded an event and film for the Bowel Research UK Microbiome Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.” (source page)
• NEO Energy — “NEO Energy Upstream UK Limited gifted to our microbiome appeal.” (source page)
• SurgEase — “SurgEase funded our Festive Fundraising Event and has collaborated on our patient and public involvement programme.” (source page)
• Olympus — “Olympus helped to fund our patient and public involvement activities.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asha Senapati · trustee of 2 other charities
• CHARLES DAVID BUENO DE MESQUITA
• Dale Vimalachandran
• James Kinross
• Lisa McCurdy
• MATTHEW BLACK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Fearnhead · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Dion Morton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Taryn Leonie McHarg

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

Operates in: 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 BOWEL CANCER UK.

• BOWEL CANCER UK income £6.6m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY income £4.5m
• KIDNEY RESEARCH UK income £14.5m
• Prevent Breast Cancer income £2.2m
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• CANCER RESEARCH WALES income £5.9m

Side by side with its peers

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