MATERNITY WORLDWIDE LIMITED

Registered charity 1111504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maternity Worldwide exists to help reduce the number of women dying or injured in childbirth Our mission is to work with communities and our partners to:Identify and develop appropriate and effective ways to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.Facilitate communities to access quality skilled maternity care.Support the provision of quality skilled care.

Objects

THE PROMOTION, PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE HEALTH OF WOMEN UNDERGOINGCHILDBIRTH AND ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH IN GENERAL, AND INPARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL OROTHER PERSONNEL TO WORK IN MATERNITY UNITS IN ALL JURISDICTIONS.TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE MATERNITY UNITS ANDSERVICES IN ALL JURISDICTIONS.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PREGNANCYAND CHILDBIRTH IN GENERAL IN ALL JURISDICTIONSTO PROCURE TO BE PREPARED, PRINTED, PUBLISHED OR ISSUED BY ALL MEANSAPPROPRIATE SUCH PAPERS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, PERIODICALS OR ADVERTISEMENTS ASSHALL FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £62,376, resulting in a net income of £10,883. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £24,108, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations and maintain operational continuity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Maternity Worldwide (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ADRIAN CHRISTOPHER BROWNchair
• MARY RUSSELL
• Professor Stanley Beames Brown

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Malawi · Uganda

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORLD MEDICAL FUND.

• WORLD MEDICAL FUND income £154k
• MATERNITY ACTION income £958k
• Mothers' Union income £3.4m
• MATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION income £236k
• THE PROMPT MATERNITY FOUNDATION income £433k
• MERCY WORLDWIDE TRUST income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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