CLEFT

Registered charity 1194581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve the suffering of and promote and protect the physical and mental health of patients affected by cleft lip and palate and related conditions by supporting research and through the provision of support, education, practical advice and financial assistance to clinics in lower and middle income countries.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PATIENTS AFFECTED BY CLEFT LIP AND PALATE AND RELATED CONDITIONS BY SUPPORTING RESEARCH IN DESIGNATED CLEFT CENTRES WITHIN THE UK AND IN OVERSEAS CENTRES SUPPORTED BY CLEFT INTO THE CAUSES AND METHODS OF TREATMENTS AVAILABLE. 2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CLEFT LIP AND PALATE AND RELATED CONDITIONS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO CLINICAL WORKING IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES AS DETERMINED BY THE WORLD BANK LIST OF ECONOMIES (OR EQUIVALENT) FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £363,528 in free reserves, which is well above its policy target of six months' core operating costs (£56,682). Total income for the year was £325,118 against expenditure of £136,823, resulting in a net surplus that increased total funds to £633,077. The trustees confirm that no material uncertainties exist 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Charitable Trust — “100% of your donation will go towards funding an international or research project thanks to a charitable trust covering all our administrat…” (source page)
• Transforming Faces — “Canadian charity, Transforming Faces, is a founding sponsor of the global network of cleft professionals and charity leaders committed to pr…” (source page)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bruce Richard
• Chris Anthony Williams
• David George Christopher Sainsbury
• Kathryn Qattan
• Marie Pinkstone
• Matthew John Fell
• Richard Carrick
• Rona Caroline Slator
• Shonnelly Novintan
• Timothy GOODACRE
• Weronika Holt

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Egypt · Iraq · Mozambique · Nepal · Pakistan · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CLEFT LIP AND PALATE ASSOCIATION.

• THE CLEFT LIP AND PALATE ASSOCIATION income £1.9m
• THE SMILE TRAIN UK income £13.6m
• OPERATION HERNIA income £66k
• ELFT CHARITY income £166k
• HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD income £2.4m
• CFSGBI LTD income £137k

Side by side with its peers

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