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Company description
VSO is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 18 September 1961; registered for 64 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 85590 · Other education n.e.c., with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 3 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- VSO
- Company number
- 00703509
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
28 November 2025Next statement due
12 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 68.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 80.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 85.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 75.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- Less than 2500.9% median hourly gap
- Less than 250-0.3% median hourly gap
- Less than 2504.3% median hourly gap
- Less than 2505.4% median hourly gap
- Less than 2507.2% median hourly gap
- Less than 2507.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.5% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 April 2019 – 30 September 2019
- Filed
- 28 October 2019
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 1.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Unless otherwise agreed in writing the Supplier shall invoice after the delivery of the goods or performance of the services unless otherwise agreed in writing by the purchaser. The purchaser shall pay for the goods or services no later than 30 days after the receipt of a correct invoice unless otherwise agreed. The Purchaser will be entitled to set off against the price any sums owed to the Purchaser by the Supplier
- Dispute resolution process
It is the responsibility of the staff member acting as contract manager, seeking advice from the Finance department and/or procurement department to s resolve supplier disputes. Disputes are to be resolved in an amicable and timely manner. If a dispute cannot be resolved it is referred for arbitration or expert resolution as recorded in the VSO standard contract terms and conditions
Earlier payment reports (2 shown)
- 20.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS
LEI 54930085UZ0MI5OINJ34 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 8888
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 26 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 31 July 2023
- Next renewal
- 24 February 2015
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 100 LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, GB-KTT, KT2 6QJ, GB
- Headquarters address
- 100 LONDON ROAD, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, GB-KTT, KT2 6QJ, GB
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- VSO
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 31 March 2023 – 1 April 2024
- Approved
- 30 September 2024
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £36 million to £60 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 1 October 2024
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Workers within your supply chain
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Demonstrated progress
VSO uses Key performance indicators as set out in our statement
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
VSO
Registration Z6106928
- Registered from
- 28 November 2001
- Current end date
- 27 November 2026
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
08 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning - Inclusion Framework
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · ocds-b5fd17-ef9b1b50-ced0-4df0-9572-20a3e189a7b1
- Supplier named in award
- Voluntary Service Overseas
- Award value
- £100,000
- Contract period
- 15 October 2018 – 23 September 2021
- Published
- 26 March 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ef9b1b50-ced0-4df0-9572-20a3e189a7b1-2019-03-26T15:13:34Z
DFID 7137 - International Citizen Service Phase 2 (ICS2) Amendment No 2
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ocds-b5fd17-2f8ee584-b767-4802-a5a3-f8fc3d92e513
- Supplier named in award
- VSO International
- Award value
- £15,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2015 – 27 February 2021
- Published
- 24 September 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 75211000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2f8ee584-b767-4802-a5a3-f8fc3d92e513-2019-09-24T15:53:39+01:00
DFID 7137 Youth Volunteering Scheme Contract Amendment No 1
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ocds-b5fd17-19138baf-7c9e-476d-9f69-60f968b7a177
- Supplier named in award
- VSO International
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 1 September 2015 – 31 December 2019
- Published
- 4 June 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 75211200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-19138baf-7c9e-476d-9f69-60f968b7a177-2018-06-04T13:15:35+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 8 December 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
10 Charity register
Charity Commission links
VSO
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 14 February 1962
- Latest income
- £24,673,000
- Latest expenditure
- £30,613,000
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Human Resources
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Children/young People
VSO IS THE WORLD'S LEADING INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY WORKING FOR CHANGE THROUGH VOLUNTEERS. VSO BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER TO SHARE SKILLS, CREATIVITY AND LEARNING TO BUILD A FAIRER WORLD. VSO HAS PROGRAMMES IN OVER TWENTY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FOCUSING ON DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE IN THREE THEMATIC AREAS: EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SECURE LIVELIHOODS.
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11 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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12 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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14 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
16 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.