OPORA

Registered charity 1199760 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Opora supports Ukrainians fleeing the war in rebuilding their lives sustainably in the United Kingdom through: information channels and community support groups; housing access information; employability, language and mental health support access; support for Ukrainian refugee-led businesses through business advice; advocacy around barriers faced.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR PERSONS AFFECTED BY THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY: • FINANCIAL AND/OR PRACTICAL AID; • ACCOMMODATION; • INFORMATION AND ADVICE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £51,796 were maintained in line with the Board's three-month expenditure target, which the Trustees considered adequate despite a constrained fundraising environment. The charity reported a net deficit of £40,457 for the year, reducing total funds from £119,253 to £78,796, but confirmed it remains a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations.

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.

• 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
• 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

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jehor Lanovenkochair
• ANNA YURIYIVNA KACHETZHIYIVA
• Damon Shipe
• Evan Paul Silk · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Czech Republic · France · Moldova · Poland · Romania · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UKRAINE CHARITY.

• UKRAINE CHARITY income £201k
• COMMUNITY SPONSORS CHARITY income £41k
• UKRAINE RELIEF AID income £324k
• UKRAINE APPEAL income £87k
• OPOKA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £242k
• HUMANITARIAN AID LIMITED income £65k

Side by side with its peers

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