HANSON RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 275779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity undertakes medical research and the advancement of medical eductation for the benefit of the public through a fellowship in Surgery at the Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford.

Objects

ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE UNDERTAKING OF MEDICAL RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,670,601, which the trustees hold in respect of planned expenditure to cover fellowship costs. The charity reports sufficient cash to meet short-term demands and asserts that even a significant fall in investment value would not impact its ability to continue. No material matters came to the examiner's attention during the review.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROF FREDDIE HAMDYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• FIONA BARCLAY HOPE · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORD GLENARTHUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROF PETER FRIEND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof David Cranston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Simon Buczacki · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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