Registered charity (CIO) · London
Surgical Teams Working in Africa Together for Safer Surgery
- 8 trustees
- Income £25k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Richard Michael ConstantChair · since 2019
- Christian WakefieldTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Helena Mary KellyTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Jonathan Mark LintonTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Karen NugentTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Katharine Anne Szymankiewicz MrcgpTrustee · since 2019
- Lesley HuntTrustee · since 2024
- Mark Andrew SzymankiewiczTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Tanzania
- Website
- www.swiftss.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£25k£5k
- 2024£5k£16k
- 2023£392£18k
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£5k
- 2021£49k£8k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY FACILITATING IMPROVEMENTS IN SURGICAL CARE IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Richard Michael Constant Chair since 2019
- Christian Wakefield since 2023
- Dr Helena Mary Kelly since 2019
- Dr Jonathan Mark Linton since 2019
- Dr Karen Nugent since 2019
- Dr Katharine Anne Szymankiewicz Mrcgp since 2019
- Lesley Hunt since 2024
- Mark Andrew Szymankiewicz since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard Michael Constant Chair since 2019
- Dr Helena Mary Kelly since 2019
- Dr Jonathan Mark Linton since 2019
- Dr Karen Nugent since 2019
- Dr Katharine Anne Szymankiewicz Mrcgp since 2019
- Mark Andrew Szymankiewicz since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Richard Michael Constant Chair since 2019
- Christian Wakefield since 2023
- Dr Helena Mary Kelly since 2019
- Dr Jonathan Mark Linton since 2019
- Dr Karen Nugent since 2019
- Dr Katharine Anne Szymankiewicz Mrcgp since 2019
- Lesley Hunt since 2024
- Mark Andrew Szymankiewicz since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1186564
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 25 Nov 2019
- Contact on the register
- 07500976133 · richardconstant3@gmail.com
- 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.
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