DOCTORS OF THE WORLD UK

Registered charity 1067406 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471993 · also known as MEDECINS DU MONDE UK

As part of the Medecins du Monde network we participate in delivering programmes in 77 countries.Through our health programmes and advocacy we work to ensure excluded people overcome barriers to realising their right to health.We provide life-saving humanitarian healthcare and work with vulnerable migrants, people at risk of harm and on projects that advance sexual and reproductive health.

Objects

TO RELIEVE NEED AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF POVERTY, FAMINE, DISEASE, NATURAL AND MAN MADE DISASTERS, WARS AND CIVIL WARS IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE , RELIGION, IDEOLOGY OR POLITICS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased by 32% to £2,258,021, driven primarily by international activities. Unrestricted reserves rose significantly to £354,221, which the trustees report represents three months of budgeted expenditure, demonstrating compliance with their reserves policy. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03483008

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Doctors of the World UK (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LLOYD, Steven, Dr — director, appointed 29/08/2024on trustee list
• FERDINAND, Nikita, Dr — director, appointed 29/08/2024not on trustee list
• WARD, Mark Brython — director, appointed 29/08/2024on trustee list
• MCDONALD, Julia Anne — director, appointed 06/05/2022on trustee list
• UWAMALIYA, Philomene — director, appointed 04/02/2022on trustee list
• HERRMAN, Colin Brett — director, appointed 03/11/2021on trustee list
• LEE, Avril — director, appointed 31/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Doctors of the World UK — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/03/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Doctors of the World UK: Good (27/04/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Avril Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colin Brett Herrman
• Dr Nikita Kanani
• Dr Steven Lloyd
• Julia Mcdonald
• Mark Brython Ward
• PHILOMENE UWAMALIYA · trustee of 4 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Armenia · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso · Greece · Morocco · Nepal · Niger · Philippines · Russia · Sierra Leone · Syria · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMPAIGNS IN GLOBAL HEALTH.

• CAMPAIGNS IN GLOBAL HEALTH income £954k
• WORLD MEDICAL FUND income £154k
• CARERS WORLDWIDE income £735k
• INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (UK) income £136.4m
• FOOTWORK UK income £48k
• DOCTORS WORLDWIDE LTD income £867k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.