WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

Your money goes towards:

£50
donation will help towards the early detection of bowel cancer.

£100
donation will assist our research into malignant polyps forming in Polyposis patients.

£500
will assist our research into tissue engineering which will lead one day to bowel transplantation

£800
funds an MSC place within our Burdett Institute for Gastrointestinal Nursing.

£1000
will sponsor one of our educational courses, attended by Doctors, Consultants and nurses

Where we've spent previous donations: 

Research

£8,100 to investigate a new approach into the management of transphincteric fistulas.  The technique, if successful, might subsequently go onto be applied to IBD patients.

£9,000 to improve understanding of the causes of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease.

£7,200 into the early detection of pre-cancerous changes in the bowel lining.

£9,850 allowing researchers to explore Vitamin D as a treatment for IBD.

£20,000 to fund a study into the comparison of gut cells in Crohn's Disease patients following surgery, which could allow recurrences of Crohn's Disease to be predicted and treated earlier.

Training

£15,000 grant was awarded to the Burdette Institute, some of which has funded 4 x MSc three year Programmes, eight stand alone training modules, endoscopy simulator equipment and research study expenses. 

Education

£30,000 went towards the refurbishment of the Clore Lecture Theatre which included purchasing a High Definition projector.

£164,000 has gone towards the extension to the Wolfson Endoscopy Unit.

£150,000 was spent on the modular buildings which house the Burdett Institute for Gastrointestinal nursing, the Psychological Medicine Unit and the IBD Unit.