Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity (CIO) · St Ann's Square, Manchester

UK-MED

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is UK-MED. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Turkey, Ukraine, Occupied Palestinian Territories and more
Website
www.uk-med.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£23m
  • 2024£11m£10m
  • 2023£12m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.5m£4.4m
  • 2021£5.5m£5.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 77%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF ANY SICKNESS, SUFFERING AND INJURY CAUSED BY ANY NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTER BY THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL AID, AND THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF HEALTH AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND THE REHABILITATION OF SUCH VICTIMS WHERE POSSIBLE. (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FACILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO AID AND ASSIST IN CARE AND TREATMENT OF VICTIMS OF SUCH DISASTERS (3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING STUDY AND RESEARCH IN TO METHODS OF PROVIDING EMERGENCY MEDICAL AID AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES TO AREAS AFFECTED BY SUCH DISASTERS AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF

Grants received

3 grants · £3,900,553 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £3,900,553 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £-71,3592020-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £218,9462020-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £3,752,9662015-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10Overseas Aid/famine Relief 9General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£23.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

63 from 35 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1166956
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 05 May 2016 as amended on 07 Sep 2023
Contact on the register
0300 140 9984 · enquiries@uk-med.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data