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Opportunity International United Kingdom

Opportunity International United Kingdom is a registered charity (number 1107713) based in Oxford, governed by 11 trustees. Latest income £3.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Opportunity UK (Charity Commission)

11 trustees
Income £3.1m (2025)

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Other Charitable Purposes
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Ghana, Malawi and more
Website: www.opportunity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Opportunity International United Kingdom
Registered: 2005

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£3.1m£2.7m
2024£1.8m£3.3m
2023£2.7m£2.8m

Earlier years

2022£2.6m£4.1m
2021£4.3m£3.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

2 grants · £398,000 total

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Top funders

The National Lottery Community Fund · £398,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £394,8832019-01-10
The National Lottery Community Fund £3,1172018-11-08

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Roger Mark Witcomb since 2018
Tineyi Emmanuel Mawocha since 2020

10.8y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

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 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Other Charitable Purposes 10Religious 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.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1107713
Status: Registered
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
Companies House: Company number 05322719 · Active
Contact on the register: 01865725304 · UKinfo@opportunity.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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