# Friends Of Anchor

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC025332
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Oct. 4, 1996
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC025332


## Contact

- **Address:** Friends of ANCHOR, c/o Balmoral Group Ltd - PR Dept, Balmoral Park, Loirston, Aberdeen
- **Postcode:** AB12 3GY
- **Website:** www.friendsofanchor.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We are a charity, dedicated to supporting people in the north of Scotland who are affected by cancer or a blood disorder.Friends of ANCHOR’s support is freely available to everyone, every day, and also extends to patient families and clinical staff. Our daily presence in Aberdeen’s ANCHOR Unit, and our connection to patients and hospitals across the region, mean we’re in the unique position to go above and beyond core clinical care with person-centred, practical support. Working hand-in-glove with the NHS, we take care of those ‘big little things’ — whether it’s a listening ear, a home comfort or a smiling face — and our staff and volunteers are there when they’re most needed. Our commitment to funding cutting edge equipment and research, alongside this wellbeing offering, keeps the developing needs of patient care at the forefront of what we do. People will always be at the heart of Friends of ANCHOR, and our work is only possible thanks to our dedicated supporters.

**Objectives:** To relieve distress by the provision of improved capacity, facility and resources to identify the extent and nature of, and offer treatment methods at the forefront of modern technology for diseases suffered by those citizens served by Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust. To advance education and research by the creation of areas of expertise and repute and to facilitate and promote research in the management of benign haematology and malignant disease. To facilitate and promote undergraduate and post graduate teaching in The Anchor Unit. To facilitate and promote an increase and improvement in the service provided in the fields of Haematology, Oncology and Radiotherapy to the patients of Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust. Any other purpose which would enhance and develop the work of The Anchor Unit as may be approved by the Trustees.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeen
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






