SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (SIGBI) LIMITED

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) Limited is a charity working to improve the lives of women and girls through its programme work. Working to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals and the 5 P.s - Partnerships, Peace, People, Planet and Prosperity - our volunteers undertake projects on the ground and fund-raise to educate, empower and enable women and girls.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
People

7 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Throughout England And Wales
- Anguilla
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Grenada
- Guernsey
- India
- Ireland
- Isle Of Man
- Jamaica
- Jersey
- Malta
- Nepal
- Northern Ireland
- Pakistan
- Saint Vincent
- Scotland
- Sri Lanka
- Trinidad And Tobago
- Turks And Caicos Islands
Governance
- 02 August 2018: Standard registration
- SIGBI (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
7 Trustee(s)
Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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Sandra Ann Taylor | Trustee | 14 March 2025 |
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Deborah Clare Kingsley | Trustee | 03 November 2024 |
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Christine Corless | Trustee | 05 November 2023 |
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GWYNNETH HILARY O'ROURKE | Trustee | 04 November 2023 |
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Carol Lindsay Green | Trustee | 29 October 2022 |
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Giselle Anne Davies | Trustee | 29 October 2022 |
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RUTH MABELLA HEALEY | Trustee | 27 October 2018 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £346.26k | £319.58k | £296.52k | £291.09k | £418.01k | |
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Total expenditure | £304.43k | £247.03k | £260.93k | £288.38k | £323.08k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 04 October 2024 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 04 October 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 15 November 2023 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 15 November 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 22 February 2023 | 22 days late | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 22 February 2023 | 22 days late | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 01 December 2021 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 01 December 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 27 August 2020 | On time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 27 August 2020 | On time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 NOV 2016 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19 JUL 2018 as amended on 10 Nov 2020
Charitable objects
4.1 TO PROMOTE EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OF OTHERS INCLUDING CLUBS: (A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAVING LIVES; (C) THE RELIEF AND/OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY; (D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; (E) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS; RELIEVING NEED AMONG VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE: RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS REDRESS E.G. MODERN DAY SLAVERY: EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, AND PROMOTING SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; (F) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY. 4.2 TO PROMOTE VOLUNTEERING IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN 4.1 AMONGST INDIVIDUAL SOROPTIMIST MEMBERS OF CLUBS, 4.3 IN EACH CASE (4.1 AND 4.2 ABOVE) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ACROSS THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN AND GIRLS TO ADVANCE THEIR STATUS, POSITION AND ROLE IN SOCIETY WHERE CURRENTLY UNEQUAL OR DISADVANTAGED (THE OBJECTS). 4.4 NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY FOR ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.
Contact information
- Address:
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SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GBI
2ND FLOOR BECKWITH HOUSE
1 WELLINGTON ROAD NORTH
STOCKPORT
SK4 1AF
- Phone:
- 0161 480 7686
- Email:
- hq@sigbi.org
- Website:
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sigbi.org
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