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Description
The charity is not active and is not carrying out any activity. The company limited by guarantee is dormant
Also known as
- B E S O
- British Executive Service Overseas
CCEW Charity number
Registered
Removed
Postcode
AL1 4NW
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Twitter: @vso_intl
- Facebook: facebook.com/vso.international
- Wikipedia: Voluntary Service Overseas
Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia links from Wikidata
Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Area of operation outside the UK
- Bangladesh
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- China
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Gambia
- Guyana
- Indonesia
- India
- Kenya
- Cambodia
- Korea, Republic of
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Sri Lanka
- Mongolia
- Maldives
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Nepal
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Thailand
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Uganda
- Viet Nam
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 2 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 268094 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
Voluntary Service Overseas (inactive)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Emergency and relief services
D33
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.
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Education
ED -
Research
RS» Medical researchRS101 -
Research
RS» ScienceRS103 -
Social welfare
SW» Individual povertySW105
Theme (CCEW)
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The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
105
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
-
Children/young People
201 -
Elderly/old People
202 -
People With Disabilities
203 -
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
205 -
Other Defined Groups
206 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
-
Provides Human Resources
304 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307 -
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308
Scale of operation
- Overseas
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1974-09-04 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2013-03-31 | 0 | |
| 2014-03-31 | 0 | |
| 2015-03-31 | 0 | |
| 2016-05-24 |
Removed |
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Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2015 £ |
2014 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | - | - |
| Volunteers | - | - |
| Trustees | - |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
According to data returned to the Charity Commission, this charity did not receive income from government grants or contracts in 2015 (the latest year with data available) or 2014.
Received 24 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
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Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
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- The Grocers' Charity (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (12 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Woodward Charitable Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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