OBSTETRICS ANAESTHETISTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1111382 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the highest standard of management and care for the mother and baby through practice, education and training in Obstetric Anaesthesia or research in Obstetric Anaesthesia.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF MANAGEMENT AND CARE FOR THE MOTHER AND BABY THROUGH PRACTICE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN OBSTETRIC ANAESTHESIA OR RESEARCH IN OBSTETRIC ANAESTHESIA

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE 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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,945,164, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £1.0m–£1.5m. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £54,994, primarily driven by high management and administration costs, but maintains significant investment assets and cash balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2022 (received 28/11/2023, 121 days after the 30/07/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05540014

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.

• KAMATH, Pooja Bola Rajendra Devendra — director, appointed 15/05/2026not on trustee list
• DEABES, Ahmed Abdelhamid Mahmo — director, appointed 15/05/2026not on trustee list
• ROBBINS, Lauren — director, appointed 15/05/2025on trustee list
• VANJARI, Vinayak — director, appointed 15/05/2025on trustee list
• KENNEDY, Natasha, Dr — director, appointed 10/05/2024on trustee list
• DEVROE, Sarah, Professor — director, appointed 10/05/2024on trustee list
• KEARNS, Rachel, Professor — director, appointed 10/05/2024on trustee list
• KENYON, Carol, Dr — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• BROOM, Malcolm Archibald, Dr — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• SODHI, Rajveen, Dr — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• METODIEV, Yavor, Dr — director, appointed 28/05/2022on trustee list
• CROSSINGHAM, Gemma, Dr — director, appointed 28/05/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Carol Kenyon
• Dr Damien Hughes
• Dr Gemma Crossingham
• Dr Lauren Robbins
• Dr Malcolm Archibald Broom
• Dr Natasha Kennedy
• Dr Nuala Lucas
• Dr Rajveen Sodhi
• Dr Sarah Armstrong
• Dr Vinayak Vanjari
• Dr Yavor Metodiev
• Professor Rachel Kearns
• Professor Sarah Devroe

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION OF ANAESTHETISTS (GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND).

• ASSOCIATION OF ANAESTHETISTS (GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND) income £8.7m
• MERSEY SCHOOL OF ANAESTHESIA income £418k
• Global Anaesthesia Development Partnerships income £75k
• MATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION income £236k
• THE WORLD FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF ANAESTHESIOLOGISTS (UK) income £207k
• THE NEUROANAESTHESIA & CRITICAL CARE SOCIETY income £121k

Side by side with its peers

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