# THE RYCROFT FOUNDATION

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1217033
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Feb. 27, 2026
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1217033


## Contact

- **Address:** 17 COOKS CRESCENT, WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER
- **Postcode:** CO7 9FJ
- **Phone:** 07540083399
- **Email:** andrewfoster101@hotmail.com



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PATIENTS AND FAMILIES IN THE UK WHO ARE AFFECTED BY SHWACHMAN-DIAMOND SYNDROME (SDS) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:- PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES ABOUT SDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PATIENTS, FAMILIES, PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC;- SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SDS AND ITS CURRENT AND POTENTIAL TREATMENT AND THE PUBLIC DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF, AND;- EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DONATING BLOOD, STEM CELLS AND BONE MARROW.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- **Who:** Children/young People, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales




## Trustees

- **Andrew John Foster** (Chair)
- Catherine Rachel Alport