By supporting training, it improves surgical skills, and by awarding grants it provides opportunities for surgeons to travel to various parts of the world and practise new techniques.

Its contributions have included funding into the research of a tool developed to predict a person's personalised prognosis following a diagnosis of prostate cancer.

[3] 2003 marked the beginning of educational visits to the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, US,[5] and eight years later, robotic surgical training for urologists was promoted by TUF.

[8][9] TUF's objectives are: To advance, promote, encourage, develop and improve the study and knowledge of urology, urological surgery and the general knowledge of science and medicine and all matters relating to the progress and development of that branch of science and medicine, and for that purpose to fund, aid, maintain and endow scholarships, fellowships, chairs and bursaries and generally to assist in the funding, instruction and support of persons and institutions engaged or involved in urological research work[3]The method used to achieve their objective is by developing diagnostic tests and minimally invasive procedures for urological diseases by financing research, by improving surgical skills by supporting training and by providing opportunities for surgeons to travel to parts of the world and practise new techniques and treatments by supporting them with grants.

[10] Having been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007, he underwent a five-hour robotic prostatectomy at the Royal Marsden Hospital before reaching the summit of Mount Everest in 2009.

[3] Teaching of robotic laparoscopy was initially arranged in 2003 with Cleveland Clinic's surgeon Indy Gill[13] and later, robotic training programmes included working with Gill at the University of Southern California, Joseph "Jay" A. Smith at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville and Mani Menon at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, US.

[20][21] In the same year and for the same purpose, surgeon Michal Smolski from Burnley hospital cycled 300 miles in two days from London to Amsterdam.

[17] The following year, just prior to an interview conducted by BBC panorama journalist, Jane Corbin, Fry publicly thanked TUF: My run-in with prostate cancer taught me about the importance of charities who are working hard on behalf of patients like myself.

[32] A significant change in the way that urological surgery is performed in the West Midlands resulted from the work of urologist Peter Cooke, who had previously received robotic training in 2012 via TUF, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, US.

[8][34][35] A special service for people with kidney cancer was developed at the Royal Free Hospital, London, by surgeons whose training was funded by TUF.