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Shpresa Programme

3.1 The objects of the Company are;For the benefit of those people in the UK from minority backgrounds, either seeking asylum or granted refugee status or who are migrants and their dependents:(a) To advance their education and training particularly...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £532k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.shpresaprogramme.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shpresa Programme
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£532k£560k
  • 2024£660k£554k
  • 2023£674k£501k
Earlier years
  • 2022£469k£423k
  • 2021£554k£507k
Charitable objects

3.1 The objects of the Company are;For the benefit of those people in the UK from minority backgrounds, either seeking asylum or granted refugee status or who are migrants and their dependents:(a) To advance their education and training particularly so as to advance them in them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community.(b) The relief of the financial hardship in particular but not exclusively by providing advice other assistance.(c) To preserve and protect their good physical and mental health.(d) The provisions of the facilities of recreation or other leisure time occupation with the object of improving the condition of life of those persons who have need of such.facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances.(e) To promote any further charitable purposes for the benefit of people from minority backgrounds in the UK as the trustees may time to time decide.(f) To form partnerships with anyone and anywhere in the world with the aim of furthering any of the objectives listed in paragraphs 3(a) to 3(e) above.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

7 trustees on the board

5.7y median 2y
average tenure
18y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Other services 8Education 1Tech and media 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.

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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£532k 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.5 in 2021

7 from 8 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
1110688
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 MARCH 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30 JUNE 2005. as amended on 31 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 04692860 · Active
Contact on the register
02075111586 · shpresaprogramme@yahoo.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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