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OVERSEAS PLASTIC SURGERY APPEAL

Registered charity 1116561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide life-enhancing reconstructive surgery to babies and children from impoverished families in the third world who have cleft lip and palate conditions, and other disfiguring deformities, and who have no other recourse to such treatment. Provide on-site training to other local professionals and ancillary staff. Procure and provide surgical and aneasthetic equipment for use in the 3rd world.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS IN SUCH NEED, IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL TEAMS AND EQUIPMENT, TO CARRY OUT LIFE-ENHANCING RE-CONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHILDREN REQUIRING CLEFT LIP AND PALATE SURGERY IN ASIA.2. TO ADVANCE THE TEACHING AND TRAINING OF LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, IN THE FIELDS OF SURGERY, ANAESTHESIA AND PERI-OPERATIVE PRACTICE IN GENERAL.3. FOR THE ACQUISITION OF BASIC GENERAL MEDICAL, SURGICAL AND ANAESTHETIC EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR THE ABOVE FUNCTIONS.

Area of benefit: ASIA

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£20k
Latest spending
£76k
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £3,600 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in cash funds from £151,911 to £148,311. The trustees note that the charity is wholly reliant on donations and fundraising events for funding. Despite the deficit, the unrestricted reserves of £148,311 remain above the stated minimum target of £60,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimum balance of £60,000 (held: £148k)
“We expect to continue to maintain a minimum balance of £60,000 in monetary reserves” — page 4
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Emirates Airline Foundation supported air travel
“The October camp was facilitated with the support of the Emirates Airline Foundation, which supported air travel for all professionally registered team members.” — page 3
“The Knightsbridge Private Hospital in Northern Ireland donated all medical and surgical consumables for the October camp, to the value of £4 - £5K” — page 3
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Knightsbridge Private Hospital donated consumables
“The October camp was facilitated with the support of the Emirates Airline Foundation, which supported air travel for all professionally registered team members.” — page 3
“The Knightsbridge Private Hospital in Northern Ireland donated all medical and surgical consumables for the October camp, to the value of £4 - £5K” — page 3
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Pakistan

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£20k£76k
31/12/2024£36k£40k
31/12/2023£76k£43k
31/12/2022£31k£21k
31/12/2021£84k£152k

Common questions

Is OVERSEAS PLASTIC SURGERY APPEAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £3,600 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in cash funds from £151,911 to £148,311. The trustees note that the charity is wholly reliant on donations and fundraising events for funding. Despite the deficit, the unrestricted reserves of £148,311 remain above the stated minimum target of £60,000. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds OVERSEAS PLASTIC SURGERY APPEAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name OVERSEAS PLASTIC SURGERY APPEAL as a grant recipient include KEN DODD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
KEN DODD CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£250k