NACC - About NACC

There are 70 NACC Groups around the country, arranging educational and support meetings, publicity and fundraising. Each Group is supported by a Medical Adviser

Membership is open to people who have Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn’s Disease, their families and friends, health professionals and anyone interested in supporting the work of the Association

In 2005 NACC published the NACC Plan which sets out the Aims, Vision and Principles that were adopted by members at the April 2005 AGM.

The Review describes NACC’s main activities and achievements in fulfilling the first year of the NACC Plan.

View the NACC Review with links to further information, available links are marked by a box surrounding the paragraph titles.

Learn about NACC's Patient Panels initiative and how that can improve your IBD Health Services

NACC members are asked to pay an annual subscription of £12. New members who are on a low income due to their health or employment circumstances may join at a reduced rate. Please email on the NACC membership team for more information. Overseas members are asked to pay £15 annually. Additional donations to help the work of the Association are always welcomed.

The Annual Trustee Reports and Audited Accounts which have been submitted to the Charity Commission are available by clicking here.

Thank You to our Corporate Supporters

NACC could not undertake all of the work it does without the voluntary donations and support of its members, their friends and families and also our corporate supporters.

As part of our commitment to funding transparency and to acknowledge publicly the help we receive from companies NACC has added this page to our website. The information on the support we receive from companies will be updated regularly. A copy of NACC's policy on relations with pharmaceutical companies can be downloaded here.

NACC Corporate Supporters

NACC introduced a new scheme in 2008 to enable companies to support NACC’s work through a formal Corporate Support Scheme. Corporate Supporters can make an annual donation at three levels – Gold £20,000, Silver £10,000 and Bronze £5,000. These different levels are intended to allow companies of very different sizes to support us within the scheme. NACC normally agrees with each company how half of their donation will be applied; the other half is made as an unrestricted grant to support all of NACC’s work.

2008 Corporate Supporters

Gold
Abbott	NACC Runners at the Great North Run NACC IBD Nurse Meeting in Scotland NACC Hospital Information Packs
Falk Pharma UK	NACC National Meeting for Patients
Schering Plough (UK)	NACC IBD Nurse Meeting in Scotland NACC Hospital Information Packs NACC 360 Email Newsletter
Shire Pharmaceuticals Ltd	NACC Hospital Information Packs

Silver
Philips Healthcare Incubator	Online patient survey

Other company supporters (Total support in 2008 from all companies below less than £25,000)
Convatec Ltd	IBD Transition publications
Cook	NACC 360 Email Newsletter
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd	IBD Transition publications, IBD Nurse Meeting in Scotland
Nestle Health Nutrition Ltd	IBD Transition publications
Procter & Gamble Ltd	NACC Medical Advisers Meeting NACC 360 Email Newsletter
SHS Nutricia IBD	Transition publications NACC 360 Email Newsletter

The total support received by NACC from healthcare-related companies in 2008 is currently £114,000. NACC’s anticipated expenditure for 2008 excluding grants from the Research and Welfare Funds is £1.6 million.

November 2008

New legal status for NACC.

On the 1st January 2007 NACC changed its constitutional and legal status from an Unincorporated Association to a charitable Company limited by Guarantee. NACC remains a Registered Charity and all activities, contracts, assets and liabilities of the previous Association have been transferred to the new charity. There will be no change to NACC’s aims, policies or services.

The formal details for the new legal status of NACC are:

     The National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
     A charity registered in England Number 1117148. A charity registered in Scotland Number SC038632.
     A company limited by guarantee in England: company number 5973370

Prior to this constitutional change our Registered Charity Number was 282732