With the developing situation around Covid-19 and as a health and wellbeing charity, Colostomy UK wants to ensure that it puts in place responsible measures to protect our team (volunteers and office team) and, of course, the people we support. With this in mind, Colostomy UK’s board of trustees have decided to postpone all of our events and cancel our attendance at open days until the end of April.

The latest edition of our award winning magazine Tidings is now available to download.

All your usual favourites are included like ‘Irrigation and You’, ‘Dear Nurse’, all the latest news from the Colostomy UK team, our projects and campaigns, plus real life stories and much more.

Nearly three quarters of people said that when they felt lonely, they didn’t tell anyone despite most having someone they could count on.
This Fittleworth sponsored post talks about their new campaign to tackle loneliness.

We’re supporting the Department for Transport’s new campaign, ‘it’s everyone’s journey’. The research behind the campaign shows that our unconscious behaviours can have an impact on disabled passengers. So we’re encouraging everyone to make small changesto their behaviour when travelling

Cubby Stephenson is cycling from John O Groats to Lands’ End for Colostomy UK before taking on an even bigger challenge next year.
This is why he’s doing it…

Becoming a trustee can be an enriching experience for you, our charity and most importantly, for the charities beneficiaries, our supporters. We are currently looking to add a Fundraising trustee and a HR trustee to our board.