OPERATION SMILE UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 1091316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operation Smile is an international volunteer based medical services charity providing free reconstructive surgery and aftercare to children and young adults around the world, primarily for cleft lips and/or palates. In the UK, we raise funds to treat facial deformities, recruit and supply medical volunteers, help train local medical teams/build infrastructure & public raise awareness.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £265,950 for the year ended 30 June 2025, a significant turnaround from the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, total net assets stood at £3.0 million, with free reserves of £3 million, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of six months of projected operating costs (£1.4 million).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04317039

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Operation Smile United Kingdom (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Saqib Alam — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Kathy Magee — President and CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Superdrug — “We’ve teamed up with Superdrug, Pennies and Oral B for a brand-new campaign! From the 12th August to 6th October, a quick 20p donation at th…” (source page)
• Pennies — “We’ve teamed up with Superdrug, Pennies and Oral B for a brand-new campaign! From the 12th August to 6th October, a quick 20p donation at th…” (source page)
• Oral B — “We’ve teamed up with Superdrug, Pennies and Oral B for a brand-new campaign! From the 12th August to 6th October, a quick 20p donation at th…” (source page)
• Align Technology — “At Align we feel enormously privileged to help people in the UK and Ireland achieve the smile of their dreams. This initiative with Operatio…” (source page)
• Johnson & Johnson — “As I held one of the babies, I saw how equally nervous and hopeful the child’s mother was. Despite the language barrier, her determination t…” (source page)
• Mölnlycke Health Care — “The pursuit of the best possible outcome is what connects Mölnlycke and Operation Smile at heart. It’s our privilege to support Operation Sm…” (source page)
• Stryker — “Stryker’s Mission is to work with our customers to make health care better, and there is no better demonstration than being on a mission wit…” (source page)

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.

• AYLMER, Patrick Anthony Richard — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• FUTTER, Michelle Marie — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• COPE, Ingrid Natalie — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• NYAGA, Judy Kathambi — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• DALTON, Diana Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• ALAM, Saqib — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• MAGEE, William Preston, Dr — director, appointed 03/07/2014on trustee list
• MCDONALD, Philip Francis, Dr — director, appointed 05/11/2001not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 43.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Saqib Alamchair
• Diana Elizabeth Dalton
• Dr William Preston Magee
• Ingrid Natalie Cope
• Judy Kathambi Nyaga
• MR PHIL MCDONALD
• Patrick Anthony R Aylmer

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

Operates in: Bolivia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Ghana · India · Kenya · Madagascar · Malawi · Morocco · Mozambique · Peru · Philippines

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE SMILE TRAIN UK.

• THE SMILE TRAIN UK income £13.6m
• CLEFT income £325k
• SMILESTAR income £286k
• GIFT A SMILE income £141k
• SMILE INTERNATIONAL income £143k
• CURE INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £461k

Side by side with its peers

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