CASTLEPINES MEDICAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1187050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide medicines, principally for non-communicable diseases and long term chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, hypertension, cardiovascular, coronary heart disease and diabetes.

Objects

The advancement of health and relief of suffering, principally from non-communicable diseases and long term chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, hypertension, cardiovascular, coronary heart disease and diabetes to countries in Africa, through improving access to medicines, therapies and health services where there is no adequate provision of these services to vulnerable children and adults

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity paused its activities and released its only employee in April 2024 due to an inability to secure further donor funding after its initial launch donation was exhausted. Per the trustees' report, the charity ended the year with a negligible bank balance of £5.36 and no unrestricted reserves policy target was stated.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Grose
• Dr Neil Michael Carpenter
• Dr Stanley George Shepherd
• Kenneth William Conway Ralston
• Tafadzwa Mugwagwa

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

Operates in: Botswana · Mozambique · South Africa · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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