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Women In Informal Employment: Globalizing And Organizing (Wiego) Limited

Wiego LTD

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1143510
Status
Registered
Registered
Aug. 23, 2011
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Undefined

Address

Address
521 ROYAL EXCHANGE
MANCHESTER
M2 7EN

Contact

Activities

WIEGO pursues its objects by helping to build networks of informal worker organizations; undertaking policy analysis, statistical research and data analysis on the informal economy; providing policy advice and convening policy dialogues on the informal economy; and documenting and disseminating good practice in support of the informal workforce especially women.

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.

Classification

How
Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
What
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Who
Other Defined Groups

Areas of operation

Country
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Zimbabwe
Local Authority
Manchester City

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 £6,991,814 £12,449,190 £11,931,227 10
March 31, 2024 £5,662,520 £11,965,357 £17,782,251 10
March 31, 2023 £11,673,594 £10,669,208 £24,653,431 11
March 31, 2022 £25,233,228 £7,840,372 £22,212,744 8
March 31, 2021 £8,379,658 £5,363,310 £4,594,637 8

Trustees

Name Appointed
Mirai Chatterjee (Chair) Nov. 3, 2019
Debra Marie Davis Aug. 23, 2011
Dr LIN LEAN LIM Aug. 24, 2011
Dr Martha Chen Nov. 15, 2022
Dr Simel Esim Nov. 15, 2022
Juana del Carmen Britez Nov. 15, 2022
Julie-Anne Michele Melanie Duchatel Jan. 31, 2023
Lorraine Sibanda Nov. 15, 2022
Poonsap Suanmuang Tulaphan Nov. 15, 2022
Professor Imraan Abdul Kader Valodia Jan. 31, 2023