FACING THE WORLD

Registered charity 1092772 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Facing the World has pioneered a bold new approach to sustainable healthcare, resulting in self-run centres of excellence in the countries we work in. This approach ensures that children born with facial differences can receive the surgery they need, and that these centres can be replicated both nationally and internationally.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:-1. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, SICKNESS, INJURY AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR OF CHILDREN WITH FACIAL DEFORMITIES; AND 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FACIAL DEFORMITIES IN ALL RESPECTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL & OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total revenues of £742,106, with unrestricted funds held at £367,663 and restricted funds at £48,120. The trustees have designated £175,000 of general reserves as a working capital fund to sustain basic costs for up to six months. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Georgiades Charalambou & Co LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anil Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Florian Bast
• KATRIN KANDEL
• Michael Chiu Chan
• Peter Constantin William Schell
• Peter Murray Clarke
• Richard William James Porter
• Simon John Paul Fennell

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea · Vietnam

Income and spending

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Known funders

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