NEWMARKET OPEN DOOR

Registered charity 1070554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWMARKET OPEN DOOR LIMITED

The Charity's objectives and activities are the advancement of the Christian faith and education, including the relief of persons experiencing poverty, homelessness, physical and mental disability, and in furtherance of such objectives the provision of accommodation and support for such persons.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT TOF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND EDUCATION INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF PERSONS EXPERIENCING POVERTY HOMELESSNESS PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITY AND IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OBJECTS THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NEWMARKET AND DISTRICT

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £144,237, which is above the trustees' policy target of approximately one month's operating expenditure (£49,000). However, the independent examiner identified a matter of concern regarding potential financial difficulty, noting that going concern status relies on the completion of a lease surrender and the sale of Windsor House.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 15/05/2023, 104 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 03505843

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Newmarket Open Door (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• WALKER, Lyn Annette — director, appointed 19/01/2026not on trustee list
• AKINSANYA, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 30/07/2025on trustee list
• WELLS, Martin — director, appointed 30/07/2025on trustee list
• WALKER, David James — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• OTULE, Robert, The Revd Canon — director, appointed 28/06/2024on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £250k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David James Walker
• Dr ANTHONY JOHN SIMON WHITE
• Lyn Annette McIntyre
• Martin Wells
• Rev Robert Otule
• Sarah Louise Akinsanya

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODSIDE CHURCH.

• WOODSIDE CHURCH income £712k
• ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE TRUST (WINDSOR CASTLE) income £1.3m
• OPEN DOORS BAPTIST CHURCH income £79k
• THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT income £108k
• THE DOOR YOUTH PROJECT income £749k
• THE OPEN DOOR (TAUNTON) income £187k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.