THE DAVID NOTT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1162537 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The David Nott Foundation provides surgeons and medical professionals with the skills they need to provide relief and assistance in conflict and natural disaster zones around the world. As well as providing the best medical care, David Nott Foundation surgeons train local healthcare professionals; leaving a legacy of education and better health outcomes.

Objects

The advancement of health and the saving of lives by funding and/or delivering or facilitating training (either alone or in partnership with other organisations) for surgeons and medical professionals, to enable them to address the needs of medical patients in conflict and disaster zones and other austere environments.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a significant increase in total income to £3,926,664, driven largely by legacies, resulting in a net income of £1,931,409. Total reserves stood at £4,459,000, which is substantially above the stated operating reserve policy target of four months' budgeted costs (£793,034). The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — David Nott Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr James Gough — Chief Executive (source)
• Nick Fishwick CMG — Chair (source)
• David Nott OBE FRCS — Co-Founder (source)
• Eleanor Nott — Co-Founder (source)
• Alison Aldrich-Blake — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Lucy Lyon — Director of Communications (source)
• Nicola Batrick FRCS FRCEM — Medical Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Oliver Bonas — “Our partnership with Oliver Bonas is built on shared values of compassion, courage and a commitment to making a difference. Chris Shearer-Wr…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £128k. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Parveen June Kumar
• Kamila Emily Louise Kingstone
• Martin David Spurling
• Nicholas Bernard Frank Fishwick CMG

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Afghanistan · Ajman · Akrotiri · Aland Islands · Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Andorra · Angola · Anguilla · Antarctica

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.