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Registered charity (CIO) · Bury

Sovereign House GH

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £128k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 4 more
Where
Manchester City, Salford City, Ghana, Bury
Website
sovereignhousegh.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sovereign House GH
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£128k£117k
  • 2024£122k£92k
  • 2023£81k£45k
Earlier years
  • 2022£89k£68k
  • 2021£59k£39k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF POOR AND ORPHANED CHILDREN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS TO BRILLIANT BUT NEEDY STUDENTS (IN FULL TIME EDUCATION) WHOSE PARENTS CANNOT AFFORD THE FEES(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND ORPHANED CHILDREN WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP AND CONSEQUENTLY ARE IN DISTRESS OR WHO ARE SICK BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT AND EMPOWERMENT FOR INCOME GENERATING AVENUES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TOWARDS A LIFE OF PURPOSE, DIGNITY AND BELONGING.

Grants received

5 grants · £133,998 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £99,0002024-11-12
  • Forever Manchester £5,0002023-10-04
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-12-09
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-09-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9982019-05-30
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

7.2y median 8y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

2
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 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 2Other services 1Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£128k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1168568
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 02 Aug 2016
Companies House
Company number 09551467 · Active
Contact on the register
01617591255 · contact@sovereignhousegh.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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