Somali Outreach Project

Analysis

Somali Outreach Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Milton Keynes. It was registered in November 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Somali Outreach Project reported income of £80k and spending of £80k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £32k to £80k (+152%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Somali Outreach Project sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Making Communities Work & Grow (MCWG) (£80k), Freedom Church Waddington (£80k) and Riverside Church (Taunton) (£80k).