Global Rehabilitation
Trustees annual report for year ended March 2025
Name: Global Rehabilitation
Date of constitution: 22/06/2018
Objectives: The relief of need for adults and children with temporary or permanent physical and complex disabilities in low- and middle-income countries by the promotion of better rehabilitation services, in particular but not exclusively by sharing of professional skills, teaching, training, advocacy and undertaking research and facilitating links for achieving the same with other reputed organisations in developing countries.
The charity trustees are as follows:
Dr. Simone Doctors
Dr. Anne Chamberlain
Dr. Martin Schweiger
Dr. Ram P Hariharan
Dr. Rory O’Connor
Dr. Stephen Halpin
Dr. Oliver Isaac
Treasurer
The organisation carries out its purposes by,
-Facilitating volunteer visits to Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) mainly by health professionals working mainly in the UK, financially supporting their expenses, training and preparing them to deliver contextually appropriate education
-Supporting (including financially) health professional in LMICs to improve their skills through formal and informal training in their own or other countries, and by other means such as online teaching
-Empowering and equipping rehabilitation professionals in LMICs to enable them to train others aiming to sustain effective rehabilitation services within the health systems.
-Working in partnership with colleagues in LMICs, informing health policy decision makers in those countries regarding the importance of rehabilitation to the participation of disabled people in society
-Supporting (including financially) research related to rehabilitation in LMICs to increase the evidence base for their practice
Trustees have a long history of working in Madagascar, and expect to continue this partnership initially, and may involve other LMICs in the future.
There are no paid employees in the charity and all trustees, and the treasurer are volunteers.
The trustees meet every month and invite supporters and friends of the charity every other month to discuss and plan activities and training. The charity will hold an AGM towards the end of the year.
Activities in the year 2024-25
Following on from the success of reconnection with AMPR Mada (the Association of Rehabilitation Medicine in Madagascar) over the last year, the main activity of the group was to assist in a conference for management of persons with spinal cord lesions in April 2024 in Antananarivo. This was held over 5 days, and involved lectures on aspects of spinal injuries care, workshops, service user engagement and home visits. Specifically, AMPR facilitated a workshop with live links from various global rehabilitation centres, workshops on urological management post spinal injury and leadership. The response from AMPR was very positive.
Regular trustee meetings took place to discuss the ongoing contact with colleagues in Madagascar. Due to the complexities of obtaining a safe mechanism of transfer of funds, the sponsoring of internet connection for members of AMPR Mada has not continued.
Please find below the financial report of the charity for the financial year 2024-2025
Statement of Financial Position
| Receipts | |
|---|---|
| Donations | 5305.05 |
| Fundraising | 0 |
| Grants | 0 |
| Other | 1027.60 |
| Payments | |
| Salaries | 0 |
| Fundraising | 0 |
| Travel | 0 |
| Training [Internet] |
3938.38 |
| Admin. | 144 |
| Other | 0 |
|---|---|
| Surplus/(Deficit) | 2250.27 |
| Fixed Assets | 0 |
| Opening Funds | 10762.55 |
| Closing Funds | 13012.82 |
| Cash at Bank as of 31st March 2025 |
13012.82 |
Proposed activities for 2025 – 2026:
GR will continue to provide educational input for rehabilitation professionals, and our biggest area of activity is in Madagascar through support of AMPR Mada. The situation is extremely challenging for professionals in Madagascar in view of the political instability, lack of resources and brain drain. We will seek to continue to engage in discussions and support education of rehabilitation doctors.