OPEN DOOR (NORTH EAST)

Registered charity 1099865 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide a range of services to both asylum seekers & refugees living on Teesside. We provide food & housing to destitute asylum seekers. We provide housing, a work club & training opportunities to refugees. A range of drop in service fostering community integration and English Classes (ESOL).

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN MIDDLESBROUGH AND THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: MIDDLESBROUGH AND THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Middlesbrough, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves declined to £289,130, falling below the trustees' stated policy target of three months' average gross expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £144,684 for the year, primarily due to a shortfall in income against budget. Despite this, the trustees consider the overall financial position adequate and the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis.

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
• 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)

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Big Society Capital — “Better outcomes for refugees using social investment by: Big Society Capital” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £359k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Christopher Rogalskichair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bindhu Thomas
• Dr Ralph Hogan Grob
• Glenn Mills
• Mahvash Shebanian
• Stephen Edward Jones

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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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 THURROCK OPEN DOOR.

• THURROCK OPEN DOOR income £442k
• DEVIZES OPENDOORS income £52k
• OPEN DOOR EXMOUTH income £381k
• OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL income £854k
• OPEN DOOR CHURCH SUNBURY income £137k
• OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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