Report of unaudited Annual Accounts Dates 18/12/2023 - 31/03/2025 

|Charity Name:|Progress - The Oesophago-gastric Cancer Support|
|---|---|
|.|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|
|---|---|
||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.