Open City

Registered charity 1072104 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON OPEN HOUSE, OPEN CITY ARCHITECTURE

To champion the value of well designed place and space in making a liveable and vibrant city and the role everyone play within it

Objects

To foster public appreciation of and advance public education in architecture.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £84,007, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £257,133. This reserve level is explicitly noted as being below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining at least £300,000 to cover three months of expenditure. Despite this, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Galloways Accounting (Audit) Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• 2026 London Open House highlights – from the architecture festival that opens doors of all kinds wallpaper.com · 11/09/2026

What the charity says about itself (2023)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jim Minton — Chair (source)
• Manijeh Verghese — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Paul Hamlyn Foundation” (source page)
• The Tallow Chandlers' Company — “The Tallow Chandlers' Company” (source page)
• The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust — “The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James William Mintonchair
• Ann Paul
• Anna Liu
• Aretha Ahunanya
• Carolyn Larkin
• Dav Bansal
• Mike Saunders
• Peter Bury
• Roland Oakshett
• Sara Habanananda Bailey
• Sarah Gold
• Selina Mason

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FULL FACT.

• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• OPEN DOOR EXMOUTH income £381k
• OPEN DOOR SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE OPEN CENTRE income £102k
• CCR FOUNDATION income £139k
• THE CITY CHARITY TRUST income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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