YELLOW DOOR

Registered charity 1111753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHAMPTON RAPE CRISIS & SEXUAL ABUSE COUNSELLING SERVICE

Yellow Door provides a range of free, accessible services, which aim to be both preventative and responsive in relation to sexual assault and abuse.Services ProvidedTelephone Helpline Opening time:Wed 4-71 to 1 counselling service Independent Sexual Violence AdvisorTherapy GroupsStar Project Education & Outreach Family TherapyDiversity & Inclusion

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SICKNESS & DISTRESS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SUFFERED ABUSE/RAPE AT ANY TIME IN THEIR LIVES.II. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF SEXUAL ABUSE/RAPE AND ITS PSYSCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE SOUTHAMPTON

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus, resulting in free reserves of £656,959, which the trustees confirm sit within their stated policy target of 3 to 6 months' expenditure. The auditor's report confirms that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties related to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fiander ETL. Discloses 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05486084

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Yellow 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.

• BALLINGER, Claire, Dr — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• ALLAN, Kevin John — director, appointed 18/02/2024on trustee list
• FILER, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 22/07/2023on trustee list
• GREER, Julie Anne — director, appointed 13/05/2022on trustee list
• GROSZEWSKI, Sarah Ann — director, appointed 30/04/2021on trustee list
• SITARAM, Sukanya — director, appointed 08/06/2020on trustee list
• BROOK, Catherine — director, appointed 14/07/2014on trustee list
• MABEY, Michelle Louise — secretary, appointed 21/06/2005

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Julie Anne Greerchair
• Catherine Brook
• Dr Claire Ballinger
• Elizabeth Filer
• Kevin John Allan
• Sarah Groszewski
• Sukanya Sitaram

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANVEY ISLAND YOUTH PROJECT.

• CANVEY ISLAND YOUTH PROJECT income £433k
• OPEN DOOR YOUTH COUNSELLING LTD income £144k
• OPEN DOOR, YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION SERVICE income £1.6m
• THE OPEN DOOR CENTRE (SWINDON & DISTRICT) LIMITED income £139k
• OPEN DOOR PEOPLE income £167k
• OPENING DOORS income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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