Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 13
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Volatile income -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

DOCTORS OF THE WORLD UK

As part of the Medecins du Monde network we participate in delivering programmes in 77 countries.Through our health programmes and advocacy we work to ensure excluded people overcome barriers to realising their right to health.We provide life-saving humanitarian healthcare and work with vulnerable migrants, people at risk of harm and on projects that advance sexual and reproductive health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£1,248£1,458£-210£148£330£1791.51615
31/12/22£1,404£1,428£-24£301£540£3442.92865
31/12/21£1,585£1,626£-41£446£564£2641.92899
31/12/20£1,750£1,445£305£467£604£1781.52580
31/12/19£1,380£1,441£-62£321£299£870.721100
31/12/18£2,665£3,222£-556£279£361£1200.4190
31/12/17£3,903£3,837£66£967£917£2040.6260
31/12/16£3,136£3,090£46£572£852£6572.5180
31/12/15£8,120£7,447£673£135£806£4980.8140
31/12/14£7,036£7,022£14£257£133£1290.2110
31/12/13£3,291£3,277£15£107£118£1180.480
31/12/12£1,022£996£26£78£104£720.960
31/12/11£826£780£45£105£78£360.660
31/12/10£1,026£1,119£-93£119£33£190.270
31/12/09£1,025£1,046£-22£117£126£1141.360
31/12/08£783£726£58£149£148£1482.450
31/12/07£628£548£80£144£90£90250
31/12/06*£1,397£1,448£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£885£837£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04*£591£620£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 39%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 27 years

www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk

bbernadet@doctorsoftheworld.org.uk

02071675789

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • International healthcare & famine relief
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Armenia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Greece, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Throughout London, Turkey, Ukraine,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£327,500
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£271,359
National Lottery Community Fund£254,172
Trust for London£181,435
AB Charitable Trust£90,000
DCMS£63,551
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Doctors of the World UK
£30,000 18/04/2024
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 per year for three years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Doctors of the World deliver direct medical care and advocate for changes to policies and practice which prevent people accessing the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Medical and casework support for asylum seekers and migrants
£244,173 24/07/2023
Funding will be used to support people in vulnerable situations who are currently excluded from healthcare especially asylum seekers and migrants. This includes funding an advice line training and policy and advocacy work. The project will help ....more
London Catalyst - Doctors of the World UK - 9
£1,750 07/02/2023
Hardship Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - Speaking Truth To Power
£9,999 09/12/2022
The funding will be used to run training and skills development sessions for medical groups focussed on refugee and migrant communities. This project aims to build better communities and help isolated communities access health care and advice.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening Migrants and Refugees Right to Healthcare
£221,359 28/11/2022
Doctors of the World UK fights to reduce health inequalities by improving access to healthcare in the UK focusing on long-term systemic change. This grants supports them to develop their advocacy and engagement work, through gathering evidence of ....more
Trust for London - Doctors of the World UK
£75,000 29/06/2022
The funding is for Doctors of the World (DOTW) to build on existing lived experience initiatives, scaling up co-production work through meaningful engagement mechanisms that contribute to agenda setting and decision making.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Doctors of the World
£30,000 20/01/2022
A restricted grant of £30,000 per year for 2 years towards the Covid-19 vaccination project (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 2 years). Doctors of the World provide a proactive leadership, advocacy, and coordinator role to ensure that the ....more
Trust for London - Doctors of the World UK
£55,935 13/10/2021
12
The funding is for work to integrate healthcare access into the GLA‚ ongoing work to support Londoners with insecure immigration status, including: building the GLA‚ capacity to address patient, civil society and provider healthcare information ....more
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Doctors of the World
£20,000 15/03/2021
Towards the vaccine project
London Catalyst - Doctors of the World UK (DOTWUK) - 8
£1,750 09/02/2021
Hardship Fund
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Doctors of the World
£30,000 21/01/2021
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards the Covid-19 vaccination project. Doctors of the World will provide a proactive leadership, advocacy, and coordinator role in relation to the roll out of the C-19 vaccine, to ensure that the vaccine programme ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Vaccine availability for all
£30,000 02/12/2020
12
Doctors of the World aims to ensure that people who are living in the UK are able to access the free healthcare they need, regardless of immigration status. This grant will allow Doctors of the World to play a proactive leadership and coordination ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£63,551 09/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Doctors of the World UK
£27,500 19/06/2020
£27,500 towards three months of costs as outlined in your application.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 07/05/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Trust for London - Doctors of the World UK
£50,500 26/02/2020
12
The funding is for work to integrate healthcare access into the GLA’s ongoing work to support Londoners with insecure immigration status, including: building the GLA’s capacity to address patient, civil society and provider healthcare ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Doctors of the World UK
£300,000 28/11/2019
60
£300,000 over five years (£70,000; £65,000; £60,000; £55,000; £50,000) towards the staff and running costs of the Stratford Clinic run by Doctors of the World for vulnerable migrants.
Trust for London - Doctors of the World UK
£130,000 02/10/2019
36
The funding is for a programme of work which empowers and mobilises NHS professionals, people with lived experience and strategic health bodies to tackle the health inequalities faced by Londoners with insecure immigration status.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Doctors of the World
£110,919 12/07/2019
36
UK Universal Healthcare project
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - UK Universal Healthcare Project
£160,000 08/07/2019
36
To reform government healthcare policy and practice for people who migrate to the UK through evidence-based advocacy, parliamentary lobbying and strategic communications.
National Lottery Community Fund - Project London: Improving Health Futures
£9,980 27/06/2019
12
The funding will be used for a volunteer clinic for Asylum Seekers and Refugees to transition to a new space. The project aims to improve the space and capacity of the clinic whilst ensuring people in the local area are aware of its services.
Trust for London - Doctors of the World UK
£96,000 12/10/2017
24
The funding is to support and establish a formal network of medical professional bodies to better affect migrant healthcare policy debates Train healthcare professionals in London, increasing their understanding of migrant’s healthcare ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Strengthening community health and resilience, Nepal
£622,331 16/06/2016
24
Strengthening community health and resilience, Nepal
Barrow Cadbury Trust - research on migrant access to healthcare
£35,000 17/03/2014
research on migrant access to healthcare
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 44-62
  • AVRIL LEE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director
  • COLIN BRETT HERRMAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Legal Counsel
  • DR JAMES ELSTON (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant Epidemiologist
  • DR LISA HARROD-ROTHWELL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Doctor
  • DR NIKITA KANANI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Medical Doctor
  • DR STEVEN LLOYD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Medical Doctor
  • JULIA MCDONALD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • MARK BRYTHON WARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Production Director
  • PHILOMENE UWAMALIYA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Nurse
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/01/1998, number: 1067406
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/12/1997, number: 03483008
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 76 days late, AR04: 13 days late,
Main office

The Peoples Place
80-92 High Street
LONDON
E15 2NE

Objectives

TO RELIEVE NEED AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF POVERTY, FAMINE, DISEASE, NATURAL AND MAN MADE DISASTERS, WARS AND CIVIL WARS IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE , RELIGION, IDEOLOGY OR POLITICS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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