SELFLESS

Registered charity 1147463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our main aim is to connect skilled young people to hundreds of volunteering opportunities in healthcare.We are focused on improving healthcare both locally and worldwide. Elective Aid is a program where medical students are able to travel to Bangladesh and carry out their electives by participating in our free health camps

Objects

4.1THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1.1TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR (AS DEFINED ABOVE) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY:A)RAISING AWARENESS OF VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES;B)PROVIDING ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES, ENABLING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK;C)RECOGNISING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF VOLUNTEERS; ANDD)RAISING AWARENESS IN CHARITIES AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR OF THE BENEFITS OF HAVING VOLUNTEERS.4.1.2TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE HEALTH AND TO AID IN THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN PARTICULAR BY:A)THE EXCHANGE OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE, STUDENTS, EQUIPMENT AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS;B)SENDING VOLUNTEERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO SHARE AND DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING AND THEN SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHER VOLUNTEERS ON THEIR RETURN;C)UNDERTAKING OR ASSISTING IN VOLUNTARY WORK OF ANY KIND; ANDD)UNDERTAKING RESEARCH CONCERNING THESE MATTERS AND PUBLISHING OR OTHERWISE MAKING AVAILABLE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH TO 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £5,872 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves decreasing to £28,095 from £33,967 in the previous year. The trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate, noting that systems are adequate to mitigate identified risks. The Management Committee has examined reserves in light of main risks but has not stated a specific policy target for reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07879716

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Selfless (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.

• CAMERLYNCK, Vincent — director, appointed 11/07/2018on trustee list
• DOYLE, Andrew — director, appointed 09/10/2017on trustee list
• JUGPAL, Narinder Singh — director, appointed 09/10/2017on trustee list
• LATIF, Zahid — director, appointed 28/05/2015on trustee list
• PRESTON, John-Paul — director, appointed 28/05/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John-Paul Prestonchair
• Andrew Doyle
• Narinder Jugpal
• VINCENT CAMERLYNCK
• Zahid Latif

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Throughout London

Income and spending

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