SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (SIGBI) LIMITED

Registered charity 1179433 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIGBI

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.

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.

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 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £57,116 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by high interest rates and legacies. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £576,097, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £300,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 22/02/2023, 22 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07058666
• Trading subsidiary: SIGBI TRADING LIMITED Companies House 11019781 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PARRY, Victoria Louise — director, appointed 15/11/2025on trustee list
• BELINIS, Kathleen Veronica — director, appointed 02/11/2025not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Sandra Ann — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• CORLESS, Christine — director, appointed 05/11/2023on trustee list
• O'ROURKE, Gwynneth Hilary — director, appointed 04/11/2023on trustee list
• GREEN, Carol Lindsay — director, appointed 29/10/2022on trustee list
• COAD, Georgina Christine — secretary, appointed 10/09/2010

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Corless · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Siobhan Olive Matthews
• GWYNNETH HILARY O'ROURKE
• Jugdish Kaur Attwood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathleen Veronica Belinis DL · trustee of 5 other charities
• Roxanne Magdalene St Clair
• Victoria Louise Parry

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

Operates in: Anguilla · Bangladesh · Barbados · Grenada · Guernsey · India · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jamaica · Jersey · Malta · Nepal

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND BENEVOLENT FUND.

• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION income £70k
• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND - EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND income £9k
• 15BILLIONEBP income £1.6m
• SHARED INTEREST FOUNDATION income £683k
• INSPIRING GIRLS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED income £863k

Side by side with its peers

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