OPEN AWARDS

Registered charity 1113612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCNNWR, OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK, OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK NORTH WEST REGION, OPEN REWARDS

Education / Training

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group generated a total surplus of £135,449 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £4,699,917. The trustees consider these reserves sufficient to maintain operational continuity and safeguard charitable purposes, noting that the existing policy is reviewed annually to ensure sustainability. Per the trustees' report, the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSG Audit. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Heather Akehurst OBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Harm van Zalinge — Chair (source)
• Nina Hinton — Director of Business and Development (source)
• Paul Henderson-Griffiths — Director of Service Delivery (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 9.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Captain Benjamin Cowling-Monks
• Claire Blanchard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Webster
• Dr Anthony Ronald Rayworth
• Dr Fern Chantele Carter
• Dr Harm van Zalinge
• Graeme Carter
• Julie Elizabeth Armitage
• Mathew Bennett
• Sheila Patricia Clark
• Vicki Clare Stott

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED.

• SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED income £3.0m
• NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• GATEWAY QUALIFICATIONS LIMITED income £6.2m
• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED income £479k
• NEW PRODUCERS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY income £275k
• COMMUNITY WELFARE ACADEMY income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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