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Voluntary Service Overseas

An inactive Registered Charity based in England. Removed on 13 January 2021.

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.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-313757 .
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Description

The objects for which the Charity is established are for the public benefit to: 4.1 advance education and to aid in the relief of poverty in any part of the world. 4.2 promote the effective use of resources for the purposes of advancing education or relieving poverty in any part of the world. and 4.3 promote the Voluntary Sector. and for those purposes only: 4.3.1 to send volunteers to other countries to share and develop their skills and understanding and to share their experience with others on return. 4.3.2 to undertake or assist in works and projects of all kinds. and 4.3.3 to educate the public concerning the nature, causes, and effects of poverty and limited education in other countries, to conduct and pursue research concerning these matters and to publish or otherwise make the results of such research available to the public.

Also known as

  • Vso

OSCR Charity number

SC039117

Registered

Removed

Postcode

KT2 6QJ

Website

vsointernational.org

Latest income

£63,027,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

Linked records

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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.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-313757 .
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-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC039117 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Voluntary Service Overseas (this record) (inactive)

Organisation record from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator
Last updated 2024-05-02

Vso

Organisation record from Charity Commission for England and Wales
Last updated 2024-05-04

Vso

Organisation record from Companies House
Last updated 2024-05-04

British Executive Service Overseas (inactive)

Organisation record from Charity Commission for England and Wales
Last updated 2024-05-04

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Children or young people
  • Older people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Purposes (OSCR)

  • 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

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.

  • Other philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion H90

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.

  • Charity and VCS support CV
  • Charity and VCS support CV » Umbrella bodies CV103
  • Charity and VCS support CV » Volunteering CV104
  • Education ED
  • Research RS
  • Social welfare SW » Individual poverty SW105

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2007-12-28 Registered as a charity
2019-03-31 63,027,000
2020-03-31 63,027,000
2021-01-13 Removed
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

Grants received

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Received 24 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
The Grocers' Charity £10,000 2023 Grant - VSO
The Grocers' Charity £10,000 2022-Voluntary Services Overseas
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Volunteering For Development
£9,000,000 One year extension of the Volunteering for Development (V4D) programme
The Grocers' Charity £10,000 2021 - VSO
The Grocers' Charity £10,000 2020 VSO
The National Lottery Community Fund
International
£49,730
9 months
Resilient livelihood disability inclusion co design project
Jul 2018 to Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Integrated Programme for Strengthening Security and Justice
£1,220,032 Strengthening Access To Holistic, Gender Responsive, And Accountable Justice In Nepal (SAHAJ)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Integrated Programme for Strengthening Security and Justice
£304,900 Strengthening Access To Holistic, Gender Responsive, And Accountable Justice In Nepal (SAHAJ)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Volunteering For Development
£11,815,033 Volunteering for Development (V4D)
Comic Relief £417,543
2 years
Unlocking Talent Through Technology, Malawi
Jul 2016 to Feb 2019

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

Voluntary Service Overseas

GB-SC-SC039117

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