OPERATION HERNIA

Registered charity 1138936 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relief of sickness,protection and preservation of the health of persons of limited means,residing.in other countries,affected by groin & abdominal wall hernias generally by provision of financial assistance, surgical operations, surgical equipment, surgical facilities, practical advice and education; teaching of hernia surgery. Provision of needs in other medical and surgical specialties arising.

Objects

OBJECTIVES SHALL BE REVISED TO READ: "THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROTECTION ANDPRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF PERSONS OF LIMITED MEANS, RESIDING PERMANENTLY ORTEMPORARILY IN OTHER COUNTRIES, AFFECTED BY GROIN AND ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS INPARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SURGICALOPERATIONS, SURGICAL EQUIPMENT, SURGICAL FACILITIES, PRACTICAL ADVICE AND EDUCATION AND THE TEACHING OF HERNIA SURGERY TO PRACTITIONERS TREATING SUCH PERSONS."

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. 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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £50,693.66, which is above the stated policy target of maintaining sufficient funds to provide services for a period of at least 12 months. The charity reported a net income surplus of £6,622.37 for the year, with no creditors and no defined-benefit pension deficits disclosed.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — OPERATION HERNIA (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).

• The Herrod Foundation — “The Herrod Foundation has provided Operation Hernia missions to Rwanda and Botswana with generous financial support.” (source page)
• Medtronic — “In 2021, Medtronic provided vital support to the charity’s humanitarian hernia service training programme.” (source page)
• Leonhard Lang — “They have supported Operation Hernia on humanitarian missions with Diathermy disposables for years.” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FIELDING CHRISTIAN OPPONGchair
• ADESHINA FAWOLE
• ARUN ARIYARATHENAM
• DELLA BALL
• JONATHAN FAWOLE
• Prof JACOB AKOH

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

Operates in: Botswana · Cambodia · Cameroon · Ghana · India · Nigeria · Rwanda · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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