Registered charity · Southall
Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (Gosad)
- 5 trustees
- Income £431k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 5 more
- Where
- Slough, Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon and more
- Website
- www.gosad.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Golden Opportunity Skills and Development Limited
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£431k£487k
- 2024£490k£476k
- 2023£460k£467k
Earlier years
- 2022£396k£326k
- 2021£315k£276k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 41%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1 TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF PEOPLE FROM SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGE COMMUNITY OF LONDON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BLACK, MINORITY ETHNIC, AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY2 TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMICDISADVANTAGE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ITS COMMUNITY; AND IN PARTICULARLYBUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED YOUNGPEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE LIFE OF THEIR COMMUNITY IN WAYS WHICH ADDRESS ANDALLEVIATE SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.3 TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITYIN LONDON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN LINKS WITH SUCH PEOPLE AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHO WORK WITH THEM IN UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Grants received
25 grants · £1,047,774 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £484,328 (5 grants)
- CAF · £109,500
- John Lyon's Charity · £105,400 (2 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £52,250 (2 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £50,583
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- London Borough of Hounslow
- Greater London Authority
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Abdirrisak Jibril
- Billal Issa Nuh since 2025
- Glen Gayle since 2016
- Hakim Shakur since 2024
- Issack Jirow Olow since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Glen Gayle since 2016
- Issack Jirow Olow since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Abdirrisak Jibril
- Billal Issa Nuh since 2025
- Glen Gayle since 2016
- Hakim Shakur since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Issack Jirow Olow since 2018
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1121565
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 OCTOBER 2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 JUL 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 06396150 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02085719529 · admin@gosad.org.uk
- 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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