THE OPPO FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1163563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve financial hardship, need, suffering and distress amongst veterans of all branches of the armed forces and their partners, spouses and dependants.To promote the resettlement and rehabilitation of former armed forces personnel into the civilian community.. To advance education and vocational training for former armed forces personnel .

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, NEED, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONGST VETERANS OF ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THEIR PARTNERS, SPOUSES AND DEPENDENTS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING GRANTS OF MONEY, PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING SUITABLE HOUSING;B) PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING, DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL SKILLS, ADVICE AND MENTORING;C) PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR MEDICAL SERVICES, ITEMS, COUNSELLING OR FACILITIES;D) PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS OR SUPPORT FOR SUFFERING CAUSED BY AGE OR INFIRMITY.2) TO PROMOTE THE RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF FORMER ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL INTO THE CIVILIAN COMMUNITY BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT AND BY FOSTERING GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN FORMER ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY;3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR FORMER ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR COURSES, LEARNING MATERIALS AND PROVIDING OTHER ITEMS OR SERVICES

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £525, which is below its stated policy target of maintaining sufficient reserves to cover at least 3 months of essential running costs. Total expenditure of £102,742 exceeded incoming resources of £102,041, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity relies on voluntary income and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or pension deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 12/06/2025, 43 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 12/06/2025, 408 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The OppO Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAYAM IQBALchair
• Daniel Morton Tarshish · trustee of 1 other charity
• Squadron Leader Gareth Huw Davies

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARE AFTER COMBAT.

• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• THE ORP FOUNDATION income £275k
• VETERANS INTO LOGISTICS income £873k
• THE VETERANS CONTACT POINT income £106k
• WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED income £5.1m
• CARE FOR VETERANS income £5.9m

Side by side with its peers

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