Registered charity · Manchester
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (Wiego) Limited
3. The Company's objects are to relieve poverty: in particular the poverty of the working poor in informal employment caused by low earnings, high risks, and adverse working environments and conditions associated with informal employment worldwide...
- 10 trustees
- Income £7.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Mirai ChatterjeeChair · since 2019
- Debra Marie DavisTrustee · since 2011
- Dr LIN Lean LIMTrustee · since 2011
- Dr Martha ChenTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Simel EsimTrustee · since 2022
- Juana del Carmen BritezTrustee · since 2022
- Julie-Anne Michele Melanie DuchatelTrustee · since 2023
- Lorraine SibandaTrustee · since 2022
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- Poonsap Suanmuang TulaphanTrustee · since 2022
- Professor Imraan Abdul Kader ValodiaTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- Wits Foundation UK · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Manchester City, Belgium, Brazil, Canada and more
- Website
- WWW.WIEGO.ORG (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (Wiego) Limited
- Registered
- 2011
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£7.0m£12m
- 2024£5.7m£12m
- 2023£12m£11m
Earlier years
- 2022£25m£7.8m
- 2021£8.4m£5.4m
Charitable objects
3. The Company's objects are to relieve poverty: in particular the poverty of the working poor in informal employment caused by low earnings, high risks, and adverse working environments and conditions associated with informal employment worldwide (including non-standard or unprotected employment for formal firms); a) By conducting and promoting research (making the useful results publicly available) into the experiences and conditions of the working poor, the working environment and conditions of workers in informal employment, the wider policy and regulatory environments under which the informal workforce operates and the causes, effects and ways of addressing the poverty of workers in informal employment; b) By advancing the education of policy decision-makers, the wider public, supporters of the working poor and the working poor themselves, in relation to the causes, effects and ways of addressing the poverty of workers in informal employment;c) By helping organizations of the working poor to address the poverty of their members.
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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.
10 trustees on the board
- Mirai Chatterjee Chair since 2019
- Debra Marie Davis since 2011
- Dr LIN Lean LIM since 2011
- Dr Martha Chen since 2022
- Dr Simel Esim since 2022
- Juana del Carmen Britez since 2022
- Julie-Anne Michele Melanie Duchatel since 2023
- Lorraine Sibanda since 2022
- Poonsap Suanmuang Tulaphan since 2022
- Professor Imraan Abdul Kader Valodia since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Mirai Chatterjee Chair since 2019
- Debra Marie Davis since 2011
- Dr LIN Lean LIM since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Mirai Chatterjee Chair since 2019
- Debra Marie Davis since 2011
- Dr LIN Lean LIM since 2011
- Dr Martha Chen since 2022
- Dr Simel Esim since 2022
- Juana del Carmen Britez since 2022
- Julie-Anne Michele Melanie Duchatel since 2023
- Lorraine Sibanda since 2022
- Poonsap Suanmuang Tulaphan since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Professor Imraan Abdul Kader Valodia since 2023
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.
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0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1143510
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/06/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19/07/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/07/2011 as amended on 02 Dec 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 06273538 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01618191200 · WIEGO@WIEGO.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
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