Report of unaudited Annual Accounts Dates 18/12/2023 - 31/03/2025
| Charity Name: | Progress - The Oesophago-gastric Cancer Support |
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| . | Charity . . |
| Charity commission number: | 1206244 |
| Registered Office and operational address: The OG Regional Officer | |
| Royal Surrey County Hospital | |
| Egerton Road | |
| Guildford | |
| Surrey | |
| GU2 7XX |
| Bank account: | Cooperative Charity Account opened April |
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| 2025. The HSBC account details submitted to the | |
| Charity Commission when Progress was first | |
| registered was neither registered with HSBC when | |
| the Charity changed it’s name from Together to | |
| Progress or did the current Trustees have access | |
| to this account. A new account as stated was | |
| opened in April 2025 with zero balance. Fund | |
| raising commenced in June 2025. |
Structure, Governance and Management
The charity will be a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is controlled by a governing constitution updated
Charity Trustees and role: Paul Davidson - Chair and lay Trustee Fiona Huddy - Secretary and Medical Trustee Anna McGuire - Treasurer and Medical Trustee Stewart Payne - Lay Trustee Noel Baker - Lay Trustee Patricia Wilson - Lay Trustee Philippa ‘Madeleine’ Hewish - Medical Trustee Nima Abbassi-Ghadi - Medical Trustee
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS ARE: TO PRESERVE THE WELFARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE AND SUPPORT PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH, AND THEIR CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AFFECTED BY, OESOPHAGEALGASTRIC CANCER THROUGHOUT SE ENGLAND FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 1/ OFFERING PATIENT TO PATIENT / CARER TO CARER SUPPORT THOUGH OUR MONTHLY SUPPORT GROUPS AND INDIVIDUAL ONE TO ONE SUPPORT. 2/ ENSURING ALL PATIENTS, CARERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION (PRINTED AND ONLINE) THEY NEED AT POINT OF DIAGNOSIS AND THROUGHOUT THEIR TREATMENT PATHWAY. 3/ IMPROVING THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF SYMPTOMS TO ENABLE EARLY DIAGNOSIS, MAKING TREATMENT CHOICES AND ADVISING ON THE THERAPIES AVAILABLE 4/ PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION, SERVICES, THERAPIES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT NOT PROVIDED BY STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT PATIENTS DIRECTLY. 5/ ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION, PROVIDING SUPPORT TO AND PROMOTING THE CLINICAL RESEARCH INTO OESOPHAGEAL-GASTRIC CANCER THAT WILL BENEFIT PATIENTS DIRECTLY.
Accounts for the financial period
The bank account was opened with no funds and remained at £0 until fundraising commenced in June 2025.