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Registered charity · Berkshire

Colostomy UK

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £598k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.colostomyuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Colostomy UK
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£598k£802k
  • 2023£733k£682k
  • 2022£649k£570k
Earlier years
  • 2021£572k£493k
  • 2020£497k£482k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

1) TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF THOSE WHO HAVE A COLOSTOMY OR OTHER TYPES OF STOMA AND THEIR FAMILIES BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, REASSURANCE AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION;2) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF OSTOMATES BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES SUPPORT SERVICES NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES;3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF COLOSTOMIES AND OTHER TYPES OF ABDOMINAL STOMAS;4) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SUCH AS MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.

Grants received

13 grants · £128,805 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £46,646 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £40,000 (2 grants)
  • Sport England · £17,324 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £13,685
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £5,400

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 9Health and social care 2Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£598k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.2 in 2020

12 from 6 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1113471
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 NOVEMBER 2005 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 15 MARCH 2006. as amended on 29 Oct 2020
Companies House
Company number 05623273 · Active
Contact on the register
01189391537 · INFO@COLOSTOMYUK.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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