OPEN COUNTRY

Registered charity 1107331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We seek to enable people with any disability to access the countryside. We have a countryside activities programme, a range of publications, and offer advice on improving countryside access for all.

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £630,410 with a net income of £13,152. The trustees report that free reserves of £265,841 were significantly below their policy target of £380,000, and they are budgeting for a substantial deficit in the following year while continuing to seek new funding to ensure sustainability.

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (02/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Burt
• Clare Dowson
• David Robinson
• Jonty Warneken · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Tapper
• Richard Firth
• Samantha Turner

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of Wakefield · City Of York · Leeds City · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).