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Opportunity International UK

Also known as: Opportunity International

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039692
Status
Active
Registered
July 2, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
Angel Court
81 St. Clements Street
Oxford
OX4 1AW

Contact

Website
opportunity.org.uk
Screenshot of the Opportunity International UK website

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: The Objects are to relieve poverty and promote education in the United Kingdom and abroad, and in particular (without prejudice to that generality): by the provision of education, training and re-training of the skills required for employment and self-employment, and by the provision to poor persons of assistance in the establishment of small businesses, and the provision of temporary support for appropriate small businesses. 'Appropriate' in this context shall mean small businesses owned by and primarily employing poor persons where there is otherwise insufficient alternative employment to relieve their poverty and where any such business is in danger of failure without such temporary support, but in circumstances where with such support the small business concerned shall in the opinion of the Trustees have good prospects of recovery and viability.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2025 £3,110,663 £2,742,731 11
Dec. 31, 2024 £1,797,692 £3,337,191 9
Dec. 31, 2023 £2,716,348 £2,757,657 14
Dec. 31, 2022 £2,639,566 £4,098,398 14
Dec. 31, 2021 £4,259,213 £2,982,557 17
Dec. 31, 2020 £2,911,249 £3,217,929 16