Monday 2 February 2026 

## **Cornwall Diabetic Education Centre Trust 2025** 

## Annual Report 

The  Trust remains in a healthy financial situation. Year end cash assets stood at £138,280, with £65,670 being on long term deposit. 

The aims and objectives of the trust remain the same as in previous years, our focus primarily on education of patients, carers and professionals in the sphere of diabetes and its  complications. We also fund physical items of equipment for the Cornwall Diabetes Centre, which remains under the management of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust. 

There has been appointment of two additional Trustees in  the past 12 months, namely  Dr S Dickinson, consultant physician and Ms E Burrows, lead endocrine nurse and centre administrator. We welcome them to the board. 

With a healthy  cash reserve we are not actively fundraising ,but we have had a number of donations over the year. In particular a generous donation of £1000 from the estate of Mrs Helen Bath. We also received £100 from St Mary’s Methodist Church Bright Hour,  so many thanks to the group for their support. 

We are pleased to report that our funding activity has mainly focused on education, one of our specialist nurses  has now entered the second year of her MSc. 

At our October 2025 board meeting it was agreed that we would seek to provide an annual bursary scheme ( Tony Perrett award) for those wanting to undertake higher education in a diabetes specialism.  This would be advertised amongst staff , and there would be a annual cap of £10k per annum across a number of individuals. This would also encourage candidates to seek sponsorship from a number of sources which of course would include their employer. We already have one applicant for an MSc for this coming academic year. 

Back in October 2024 we part  sponsored a diabetes masterclass held at the county show ground in Cornwall. This draws staff from all over the county to a central venue to enable learning on all sorts of new and varied developments in the field of diabetes research and care.  It also provides an excellent opportunity for “networking”  face to face, which is really quite difficult in a county such as ours, given its geographical challenges. This is a very valuable event , and we with the other sponsors would be happy to support further events in the next year and the focus next time would be on primary care . 

To enable the centre to maintain a “corporate identity” and practically keep staff relatively warm whilst sitting at desks, the trustees have provided the finance to 

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supply some fleeces with our logo , for those who work at the centre, should they want one . 

It has been identified that as more insulin pump technology both open and closed loop systems becomes available for patients , then there is going to be a considerable pressure on the centre staff, both clinical and administrative. The trustees are again willing to supplement  the administrative function as necessary. We therefore continue to provide support to the centre and the diabetes community in Cornwall 

Dr Simon Fleming.  Chair. 


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|**Date**|Current account|Income source|Amount|Outgoings|Amount|NatWest Balance|CAF balance|On deposit|
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|**1 April 2020**|114599.85|||||114599.85|||
|**28 July 2020**||||St Petrocs donation|250|114349.85|||
|**8 Sept 2020**|Transfer from<br>reserve account|Business reserve<br>account|20500.44|||134850.29|||
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|**6 sept 2021**|Cheque 0325 to<br>CAF current account|||CAF account|50000|84850.29|50000||
|**1 Dec 2021**|Bank credit|Virgin money|10|||84860.29|||
|**8 Dec 2021**|Bank credit|Virgin money|44.32|||84904.61|||
|**15 Dec 2021**|Bank credit|Virgin money|190.15|||85094.76|||
|**22 Dec 2021**|Bank credit|Virgin money|13.75|||85108.51|||
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|**20 October 2022**||||Acc fees  2021 CAF|£75.00|85108.51|49925.73||
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|**1 Dec 22**|Bank credit|Donations|412.55|||85108.51|||
|**31 March 2023**||||Acc fees CAF 2022|£72.00||||
|**31 March**|Bank credit|Interest CAF|£70.50||||50363.05||
|**20 April 2023**|Bank credit|NatWest account|60000|||25108.51|110358.05|60000|
|**2 June 2023**||||Cambridge &<br>~~counties bank invest~~|60000||50353.05||
|**26 June 2023**|Bank credit|Interest CAF|39.52||||50386.82||
|**17 August 2023**|Bank credit|Donations|20.00||||50396.82||
|**6 sept 2023**|Bank credit|Donations|5000||||55396.82||
|**26 September 2023**|Bank credit|Interest CAF|25.95||||55417.77||



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|**16 October 2023**||||Acc fees CAF 2023|30.75|25108.51|55412.77||
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|**20 December 2023**||||Heartland  trust<br>~~BACS~~|230.00||55182.77||
|**20 December**||||Heartland  trust nw|330.00|24778.51|||
|**23 December**||Interest CAF|27.62||||||
|**15 April 2024**||Interest CAF|27.53|Acc fees CAF 2022|20||55207.92||
|**9 May**|I BACS|Donations|171.75|Acc fees CAF 2024|5||55374.67||
|**28 May 2024**||||Nw 2250 fees for<br>MSc|||||
|**28 May 2024**|Credit nw to CAF|Transfer from nw|20000|||2528.51|75374.67||
|**26 June**|Interest|Interest CAF|30.72||||75400.39||
|**9 July**|Payment|||Course fee Broome|150||75250.39||
|**30 August 2024**||||Nw 1737.60 to<br>RCHT display<br>cabinet||790.91|||
|**16 sept**|CAF  fee 3 months||||15||75235.39||
|**24 sept**|Masterclass Rcaa|||Masterclass|904.50||74330.89||
|**26 sept**|Interest|Interest CAF|37.92||||74368.81||
|**15 Oct**|Account fee||||5||74363.81||
|**23 Oct**|Education fee|J Craddock fee||Education fee|75.00||74288.81||
|**15 Nov**|Account fee||||5||74283.81||
|**9 December**|Masterclass Rcaa|||Masterclass|985.5||73298.31||
|**13 December**|Donation||||10||73308.31||
|**16 December**|Account fee||||5||73303.31||
|**27 December**|Interest|Interest CAF|36.97|||790.91|73340.28|60000|
|**Date**|Current account|Income source|Amount in|Outgoings|Amount out|NatWest Balance|CAF balance|On deposit|
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Table 1 

|**Date**|**Current account  CAF**|**Income source**|**Amount in**|**Outgoings**|**Amount out**|**CAF balance**|**NW Balance**|**On deposit**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**29 Jan 2025**||Cash deposit NW|33.98||||824.89||
|**3 June 2025**||Interest on bond c&c|3127.15|||||65670.16|
|**6 June**||||||73557.56|||
|**13 June**|MSc fees A Birkett|||Cornwall PFT|2250|71307.56|||
|**13 June**|Acc fee|||CAF|5.0|71302.56|||
|**26 June**|Interest||36.92|||71339.48|||
|**15 July**|Acc fee|||CAF|5.00|71334.48|||
|**15 August**|Acc fee|||CAF|5.00|71329.48|||
|**28 August**|MSC fnal payment Birkett|||Cornwall PFT|150.00|71179.48|||
|**5 sept 2025**|BACS refund|??|100.00|||71279.48|||
|**15 Sept 2025**|Account charge CAF||||5.00||||
|**26 sept 2025**|Interest||35.95|||71,310.43|||
|**13 October 2025**|Conf expenses ( Veall)|||A Veall|179.80||||
|**15 October 2025**|Account charge CAF||||5.00|71,125.63|||
|**31 October 2025**|Donation|A Bath bequest|1000.00|||72,125.63|||
|**14 November**|Account charge CAF||||5.00||||
|**15 December**|Account charge CAF||||5.00|72,115.63|||
|**24 December 2025**|Interest|CAF|35.79||||||
|**15 Jan 2026**|Account charge CAF||||5.00|72,156.08|||
|**2 Feb 2026**||||Yahoo feeces|371.26|71,784.82|824.89|65,670.00|



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