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Registered charity · London

VSO

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £25m (2025)
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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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana and more
Website
www.vsointernational.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
VSO
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£25m£31m
  • 2024£32m£35m
  • 2023£40m£39m
Earlier years
  • 2022£33m£39m
  • 2021£49m£47m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 36% · Government grants 36%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO AID IN THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD;PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD; PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADVANCING EDUCATION OR RELIEVING POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD; AND PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR; AND FOR THOSE PURPOSES ONLY: TO SEND VOLUNTEERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO SHARE AND DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING AND TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS ON RETURN; TO UNDERTAKE OR ASSIST IN WORKS AND PROJECTS OF ALL KINDS; AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES, AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY AND THE VALUE OF VOLUNTEERING;TO CONDUCT AND PURSUE RESEARCH CONCERNING THESE MATTERS AND TO PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE MAKE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

23 grants · £5,421,349 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.

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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.

6 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 6

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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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£24.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.3 in 2021

407 from 660 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.
73%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
313757
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/09/1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/04/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/04/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/04/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/10/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/11/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/11/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/2015 as amended on 30 Oct 2023 as amended on 20 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 00703509 · Active
Contact on the register
02087807500 · company.secretary@vsoint.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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