Holly Trust
Charity 1066677
Overview
Summary
Holly Trust appears to be a narrowly focused health charity that uses funding and public education to influence bowel-cancer outcomes rather than providing direct care. Its role is closely tied to research activity at Good Hope Hospital’s colo-proctology department, suggesting a locally anchored clinical-research partnership with a public-facing ambition: improving knowledge, early detection and treatment while ensuring research findings are published.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Sutton Trinity
Confidence: high
The Charity Commission states that Holly Trust provides financial support for bowel-cancer research in association with Good Hope Hospital. Birmingham City Council's planning record identifies Good Hope Hospital as being in Sutton Trinity ward. This is direct evidence of the charity's principal hospital-linked operational geography.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, Holly Trust (charity 1066677)
The charity's stated activity is financial support, in association with Good Hope Hospital, for research into the causes, therapies, treatments and detection of bowel cancer. - Birmingham City Council planning application 2026/00268/PA
The application identifies Good Hope Hospital as being in Sutton Trinity ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the area in which the charity operates, but this does not establish that Holly Trust directly delivers activity throughout Birmingham. The available operational evidence is concentrated on its association with Good Hope Hospital.
- A University Hospitals Birmingham colorectal leaflet identifies Holly Trust as a bowel-cancer support group, but gives only a contact address. The leaflet's references to activity at Good Hope and Heartlands hospitals relate to a Macmillan benefits adviser, not clearly to Holly Trust; it should not be treated as evidence that Holly Trust operates at Heartlands Hospital.
- The charity's registered address should not be treated as an operational site. The Charity Commission reports that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The available evidence does not verify the organisation's current support-group meeting arrangements, research locations or any additional delivery venues.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Holly Trust annual report, project update or grant record identifying the locations of research or patient-support activity funded during 2025-26.
- Current confirmation from Holly Trust or University Hospitals Birmingham of whether the bowel-cancer support group meets in person, and at which hospital or community venue.
- Evidence identifying whether Holly Trust's public education activity is delivered across Birmingham or is principally linked to the Good Hope Hospital catchment.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Other Finance
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A research-funding charity with a defined clinical anchor
The available evidence suggests that Holly Trust operates principally by financing bowel-cancer research linked to Good Hope Hospital’s colo-proctology department, rather than by independently delivering health services.
Why it matters
This identifies the Trust’s likely operating model and its dependence on a specific institutional relationship. Its practical influence may therefore lie in enabling specialist research capacity within an existing clinical setting.
Show evidence
“Financial support is provided in association with the colo-proctology department of Good Hope Hospital for research into bowel cancer.”
Source:Charity Commission“The promotion for public benefit by financial support in association with Good Hope Hospital research into causes therapies treatments and detection of bowel cancer.”
Source:Organisation
Education and research are treated as connected routes to impact
The Trust appears to combine public education about bowel cancer with research funding, indicating that it sees awareness and scientific progress as mutually reinforcing rather than separate aims.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a purely research-focused funder. It may be positioned to connect clinical knowledge with wider public understanding, particularly around early detection.
Show evidence
“To advance the education of the public in the subject of bowel cancer.”
Source:Charity Commission“Research includes causes, therapies, treatments and early detection of bowel cancer.”
Source:Charity Commission
Publication is embedded as a public-benefit safeguard
The requirement that useful research results are published may indicate an intention for funded work to benefit audiences beyond the immediate hospital partnership.
Why it matters
This suggests the Trust’s value may extend beyond financing individual projects: it potentially supports knowledge-sharing that could inform practitioners, patients and future research.
Show evidence
“The useful results of all such research are to be published.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the Trust funds particular research projects, equipment, staff posts or patient-facing initiatives.
- How it delivers bowel-cancer education and which communities it reaches.
- Whether its relationship with Good Hope Hospital is exclusive or part of a wider network.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or grant records showing funded projects, amounts and outcomes.
- Examples of published research and public education materials.
- Information from Good Hope Hospital on the nature and duration of the partnership.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The promotion for public benefit by financial support in association with Good Hope Hospital research into causes therapies treatments and detection of bowel cancer
Charity objects
A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF BOWEL CANCER B) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE COLO-PROCTOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE GOOD HOPE HOSPITAL RESEARCH NOT CAUSES THERAPIES TREATMENTS AND EARLY DETECTION OF BOWEL CANCER PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED