WOMEN IN INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT: GLOBALIZING AND ORGANIZING (WIEGO) LIMITED

Registered charity 1143510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WIEGO LTD

WIEGO pursues its objects by helping to build networks of informal worker organizations; undertaking policy analysis, statistical research and data analysis on the informal economy; providing policy advice and convening policy dialogues on the informal economy; and documenting and disseminating good practice in support of the informal workforce especially women.

Objects

3. The Company's objects are to relieve poverty: in particular the poverty of the working poor in informal employment caused by low earnings, high risks, and adverse working environments and conditions associated with informal employment worldwide (including non-standard or unprotected employment for formal firms); a) By conducting and promoting research (making the useful results publicly available) into the experiences and conditions of the working poor, the working environment and conditions of workers in informal employment, the wider policy and regulatory environments under which the informal workforce operates and the causes, effects and ways of addressing the poverty of workers in informal employment; b) By advancing the education of policy decision-makers, the wider public, supporters of the working poor and the working poor themselves, in relation to the causes, effects and ways of addressing the poverty of workers in informal employment;c) By helping organizations of the working poor to address the poverty of their members.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of $7,049,680 for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total incoming resources. The trustees confirm the entity is a going concern, citing contractual funding secured through March 2027 from major institutional donors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mirai Chatterjeechair
• DEBRA MARIE DAVIS
• Dr LIN LEAN LIM
• Dr Martha Chen
• Dr Simel Esim
• Julie-Anne Michele Melanie Duchatel
• Lorraine Sibanda
• Poonsap Suanmuang Tulaphan
• Professor Imraan Abdul Kader Valodia · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Argentina · Belgium · Brazil · Canada · Chile · China · Colombia · France · Germany · Ghana · India · Indonesia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION.

• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION (WIGAN) LIMITED income £183k
• WHAG income £3.7m
• NETWORK OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FOR BRIGHTON AND HOVE income £156k
• POVERTY ALLEVIATORS income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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