The Friends of
Constantine Surgery
Registered charity 293378

The list

What we’ve funded

Everything here was bought with money raised in these villages, and everything here is still in use. Where we have a published figure for what something cost, it is shown beside the item; where we do not, we have left it out rather than guess.

Everything we have bought

  • Constantine · Port Navas · Gweek · Seworgan

    Defibrillator cabinets

    Four machines, one in each village, available to anyone at any hour. When a heart stops, the first few minutes decide the outcome — and an ambulance cannot reach these lanes in a few minutes.

  • Constantine Surgery car park

    An external consulting room

    Bought during the pandemic so that doctors and nurses could see patients and carry out procedures without bringing the risk into the main building. It is still there and still working.

    Cost about £12,000

  • Carried out to patients at home

    Medical equipment for the doctors’ visiting bags

    The kit a doctor takes on a house call. It is what lets someone who cannot travel be examined properly at their kitchen table.

  • In the practice

    Diagnostic and computer equipment

    Including immediate testing for heart problems, and the computing the practice needs to use it. An answer in the room saves a second appointment and a longer wait.

The external consulting room funded by Friends of Constantine Surgery
The consulting room in the surgery car park.
A yellow and green locked defibrillator cabinet mounted on a brick wall, with instructions to call 999
A locked cabinet of the kind we have put up in four villages. Anyone can open it; the 999 operator gives the code.

Accounts

Our figures are public

In the five years to September 2025 we spent £44,300 on the practice and raised £14,300. The difference came out of money saved in the years before that — which is what a village fund is for.

Every year we file our income and spending with the Charity Commission, and anyone can read them. If you want to see where the money went before you give, start there.

Read our entry on the register