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SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1097832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEO

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London is a not-for-profit organisation focused on improving access into the most competitive professions from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds through a comprehensive training, mentoring and networking programme designed to improve their chances of securing graduate careers with the UK's most impressive graduate employers.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£4.3m
Latest spending
£3.9m
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported consolidated revenues of £4,284,395 against total expenditure of £3,949,756, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,478,122, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately ten months of total expenses, and maintains a cash balance at an all-time high of £4,086,937.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £130,001 - £140,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“In the band £130,001 - £140,000 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: around ten months of total expenses (held: £3.5m)
“We have therefore concluded that the appropriate level of reserves for our charity is around ten months of total expenses.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations made by related parties
“Donations made by related parties during the period totalled £1,428 (2024: £16,092). There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits paid or incurred for the year ended 31 August 2025 nor for the year ended 31 August 2024.” — page 32
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: SEO Connect Limited
“The charity has a subsidiary undertaking, SEO Connect Limited (“SEO Connect”), a private company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of England and Wales. SEO Connect provides financial institutions and corporate firms with an avenue to support their experienced hiring needs. The company started trading in August 2014” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

SEO CONNECT LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £128k
  • Profit before tax: £43k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £43k
“All profits (if any) associated with SEO Connects activities are passed on to the reserves of SEO London.”

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SEO London (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£4.3m
Total spending
£3.9m
Cost of raising funds
£99k
Reserves (reported)
£3.5m
Employees
64

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: France · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£4.3m£3.9m
31/08/2024£4.3m£4.3m
31/08/2023£4.3m£4.1m
31/08/2022£3.4m£2.4m
31/08/2021£2.9m£1.5m

Common questions

Is SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported consolidated revenues of £4,284,395 against total expenditure of £3,949,756, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,478,122, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately ten months of total expenses, and maintains a cash balance at an all-time high of £4,086,937. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Menzies LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £130,001 - £140,000 band.

Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATIONFY2024£500k
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATIONFY2023£2k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE PWC FOUNDATION1£513k
THE DULVERTON TRUST1£500k
POWER TO CHANGE TRUST1£374k
THE COALFIELDS REGENERATION TRUST1£175k
FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£174k
YOUTH BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL1£145k
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST1£70k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION1£55k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOS EDUCATION ORGANISATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LIMITED£4.3m£130,001 - £140,000—above—no doubt
SOS EDUCATION ORGANISATION FY2025£128k—0unclear—no doubt
SPRING EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (SES) FY2025£195k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SOCIETY OF OPERATIONS ENGINEERS FY2024£2.2m—0below—no doubt
STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY FY2025£4.0m——below—no doubt
THE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES FY2025£193k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.