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Sponsors For Educational Opportunity Limited

Seo

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1097832
Status
Registered
Registered
June 5, 2003
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
UK Or Elsewhere

Address

Address
41 Great Guilford Street
London
SE1 0ES

Contact

Activities

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London is a not-for-profit organisation focused on improving access into the most competitive professions from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds through a comprehensive training, mentoring and networking programme designed to improve their chances of securing graduate careers with the UK's most impressive graduate employers.

Objects: 3. Objects3.1 The Charity's Objects are: (a) to promote the advancement of education by providing advice, training, coaching and mentoring to students and young persons in the United Kingdom or elsewhere who are from such demographic groups or backgrounds as the Trustees may consider to be underrepresented or disadvantaged in any areas of education or employment or in any other activity as the Trustees may from time to time determine. We will assist any such persons to learn skills and qualities such as self-motivation, effective communication, leadership and other vocational, personal, social or pastoral skills, with a view to all or any of the following, as may be permitted by law in the relevant jurisdiction: (i) encouraging them in pursuit of academic achievement;(ii) guiding them and assisting them concerning the exploration and exploitation of opportunities for education and employment;(iii) assisting them to develop their potential and improve their chances of entering and progressing in careers in which members of their demographic groups or backgrounds are under-represented in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;(iv) instigating career and work experience initiatives with specific companies, institutions or other organisations in one or more of the following sectors or professions: the arts, finance, banking, investment banking, commerce, law, accountancy, technology, media, philanthropy, consultancy and other such sectors or professions as the Trustees may, from time to time, in their discretion determine;(v) encouraging and enabling them to take an active part in voluntary and/or community service activities. (b) to promote the relief of unemployment of people from certain demographic groups or backgrounds that the Trustees may consider to be from time to time, under-represented or disadvantaged, in the workforce in the United Kingdom or elsewhere by providing advice, training, coaching, mentoring and encouragement to apply for jobs in career areas in which they have been traditionally under-represented or disadvantaged, as may be permitted by law in the relevant jurisdiction.

Classification

How
Provides Human Resources, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Who
Children/young People, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
France
Region
Throughout London

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Aug. 31, 2024 £4,312,831 £4,312,943 £3,143,483 68
Aug. 31, 2023 £4,278,477 £4,068,354 £3,253,178 58
Aug. 31, 2022 £3,423,991 £2,391,118 £3,043,055 42
Aug. 31, 2021 £2,916,987 £1,476,398 £2,010,182 24
Aug. 31, 2020 £1,043,820 £1,077,323 £569,593 19

Trustees

Name Appointed
Andrew Amiel Fairbairn (Chair) July 1, 2022
Ausaf Abbas
Devesh Pradeep Shah Feb. 17, 2022
Karen Chamberlain March 25, 2025
Kene Ejikeme March 27, 2024
Kokou Agbo Bloua Dec. 14, 2023
Mohit Kumar Agarwal May 7, 2014
Naveen Wadhera Jan. 4, 2023
Pamela Hutchinson June 14, 2023
Zoe Jane Ashcroft