The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Opportunity International United Kingdom

Registered charity 1107713 Registered since 2005

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Pakistan

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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.

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

11
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Other Charitable Purposes 9Amateur Sport 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Education/training 1Religious Activities 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 24Finance 5Business services 4

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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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£3.1m latest income
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.

9.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.4 in 2021

12 from 17 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

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Contact

Websitewww.opportunity.org.uk
EmailUKinfo@opportunity.org
Phone01865725304
AddressANGEL COURT, 81 ST. CLEMENTS STREET, OXFORD, OX4 1AW

Finances

£3,110,663 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£4,259,213£2,982,557
2022£2,639,566£4,098,398
2023£2,716,348£2,757,657
2024£1,797,692£3,337,191
2025£3,110,663£2,742,731

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND PROMOTE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD, AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THAT GENERALITY):1. BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RE-TRAINING OF THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE EMPLOYMENT AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT, AND2. BY THE PROVISION TO POOR PERSONS OF ASSISTANCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SMALL BUSINESSES, AND3. THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY SUPPORT FOR APPROPRIATE SMALL BUSINESSES.'APPROPRIATE' IN THIS CONTEXT SHALL MEAN SMALL BUSINESSES OWNED BY AND PRIMARILY EMPLOYING POOR PERSONS WHERE THERE IS OTHERWISE INSUFFICIENT ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT TO RELIEVE THEIR POVERTY AND WHERE ANY SUCH BUSINESS IS IN DANGER OF FAILURE WITHOUT SUCH TEMPORARY SUPPORT, BUT IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WITH SUCH SUPPORT THE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNED SHALL IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES HAVE GOOD PROSPECTS OF RECOVERY AND VIABILITY.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2014

Trustees (11)

11trustees
53median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Opportunity International United Kingdom · 05322719 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 04/01/2005

5 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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