PORT CHARITY

Run the Big Half in aid of PORT Charity on Sunday 7th September 2025. Set in the heart of London starting by Tower Bridge and finishing...

The Pseudo-Obstruction Research Trust’s (PORT) Small Grants Round is NOW OPEN! PORT funds research into chronic intestinal...

After years in and out of hospital and increasingly alarming diagnoses, I consider myself lucky to be alive today. I’m a 36-year-old mum,...

PORT are very proud to announce that we have agreed to fund the following project, commencing in September 2023, for an 18 month...

Paediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO) encompasses a group of rare severe disorders affecting the gastrointestinal nerves and...

Our wonderful member Louise Macdonald and her mum managed to get Finn Russel to donate his rugby shirt and sign it to help raise money...

Gastrointestinal dysmotility relates to a spectrum of disorders where there is disruption to the movement of food through the...

The study, funded through PORT ( Pseudo Obstruction Research Trust ), will use human stomach to measure the contractions of the muscle...

We are very sad to share the news that our wonderful patron Sean Lock has passed away. Sean attended our first PORT charity ball, as a...

The Nottingham Gastrointestinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (GI MRI) group has spent 20 years developing the use of MRI to evaluate the...

The themes of Rare Disease Day 2021 – rare is many, rare is strong, rare is proud. This is our story representing these themes. Pseudo...

Isla is 9 years old and was born with a rare condition that has only been partly diagnosed. Her younger years were mostly spent in...

Ellie-Mai was born in 2011 at 42 weeks. She is my third child and I had an unremarkable pregnancy and straightforward labour. As soon as...

Sadie made a dramatic entrance into the world on the 10th October 2015 and has pretty much turned our world upside down ever since. We...

Ollie (the happiest lad alive) was born on 28th August, after a 30 something hour labour, via vacuum due to low heart rate, and other...

My name is Ruby Skye and I am 13 years old. I had symptoms of a motility problem from before birth as they noticed on scans that my...

PORT (  Pseudo Obstruction Research Trust ), is funding £50,000 for this study which aims to demonstrate enteric neurogenesis by human...

During Feeding Tube Awareness Week, we posted awareness posts on our social media accounts-Instagram, Facebook & Twitter. For many with ...

PORT has sent it’s newsletter, PORT DIGEST, out to members and is available online. The first edition of PORT Digest is now finished and...

Facebook donations have been a very useful way for PORT to raise money. Since PORT signed up to Facebook payments, at the end of...