WELBODI PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1125217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELLBODI PARTNERSHIP

The Welbodi Partnership was established to support the provision of paediatric and maternal care in Sierra Leone, where child and maternal health statistics are among the worst in the world.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG CHILDREN RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN SIERRA LEONE.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £163,201 at the end of the financial year, which the directors hold to ensure continuity given the uncertainty of future income. The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £55,735 for the year, increasing the total fund balance from £107,466 to £163,201. The directors confirmed that the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no stated material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by E A Weekes. Discloses 4 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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Welbodi Partnership (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THOMAS MATTHEW CAIRNESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MATTHEW CLARK
• Sister Betty Sam

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

Operates in: Sierra Leone

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE.

• SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE income £981k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN income £365k
• Kisiizi Partners income £340k
• WELLBORING income £278k
• THE BIRTH PARTNER PROJECT income £141k
• WELLCHILD income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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