01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- New
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 13 October 2025
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- Not supplied – Not supplied
- Latest income
- Not supplied
- Latest expenditure
- Not supplied
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: 61, Bridge Street, Kington, Herefordshire, HR5 3DJ
Website recorded by the regulator: www.nopsi.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
NOPSI provides practical, emotional and educational support to Nigerian nationals in UK prisons. It offers pastoral care, advocacy, family contact support and reintegration guidance, working with chaplaincy services, the Nigerian High Commission and partner organisations to uphold welfare, dignity and rehabilitation.
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Scotland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 117
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Classification Code
- 206
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Defined Groups
- Classification Code
- 104
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Disability
- Classification Code
- 113
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Classification Code
- 101
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- General Charitable Purposes
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 115
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- NIGERIAN OVERSEAS PRISONERS SUPPORT INITIATIVE
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2025-10-13T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Oct 2025
- Charitable Objects
- (A) THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONG NIGERIAN NATIONALS IMPRISONED OVERSEAS OR RECENTLY RELEASED, BY PROVIDING EMOTIONAL, PRACTICAL, AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO REDUCE HARDSHIP AND SUPPORT THEIR REINTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY WHERE POSSIBLE.(B) THE REHABILITATION OF EX-OFFENDERS AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME, PARTICULARLY THROUGH REINTEGRATION SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES AIMED AT REDUCING REOFFENDING.(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ON THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND OVERSEAS IMPRISONMENT AND ALSO ON THE CHALLENGES FACED BY PRISONERS ABROAD.
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Paying staff
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures