INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS

Registered charity 1113263 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIGO

The activiites include:organisation and administration of safe motherhood projects around the world, designed to reduce maternal mortality in low and middle resource countries;awarding of modest grants to societies involved in the organisation of national workshops on maternal mortality and safe motherhood ;organisation of international workshops and meetings; awarding of fellowships;

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE HEALTH OF WOMEN WORLDWIDE BY ENSURING HIGH STANDARDS IN THE PRACTICE OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided document excerpt contains only notes regarding a defined benefit pension scheme and does not disclose overall financial health metrics such as total reserves, income, or expenditure. Consequently, an assessment of the charity's financial stability cannot be derived from this text alone.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05498067

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) (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.

• SIDDIQA, Aisha, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• CUELLO FREDES, Mauricio Arturo, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025not on trustee list
• DIAZ YAMAL, Ivonne Jeannette, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025not on trustee list
• FRANCOEUR, Diane, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• GELLHAUS, Thomas Martin, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• SOMA-PILLAY, Priya, Dr — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• MUKHOPADHYAY, Sambit, Dr — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• RULISA, Stephen, Professor — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• LOUWEN, Frank, Dr — director, appointed 12/10/2023on trustee list
• CHANDRAN, Ravi, Dr. — director, appointed 28/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Frank Louwen
• Dr Priya Soma-Pillay
• Dr Ravi Chandran
• Dr Sambit Mukhopadhyay
• Professor Aisha Siddiqa
• Professor Diane Francoeur
• Professor Ivonne Jeannette Diaz Yamal
• Professor Mauricio Arturo Cuello Fredes
• Professor Stephen Rulisa
• Professor Thomas Martin Gellhaus

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 SOUTHEND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• SOUTHEND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £424k
• INDEPENDENT CHOICES GREATER MANCHESTER income £224k
• KCWA TRUST LTD income £217k
• DOCTORS WORLDWIDE LTD income £867k
• THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £201k
• WEST MOOR RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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