OPEN HANDS COVENTRY

Registered charity 1115626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activities of the charity is to benefit the public by the prevention of alcohol and substance misuse; the provision of a stable and supportive recovery houses for people recovering from alcoholism and substance misuse (and the eventual rehabilitation of those people) and extended outreach to other alcoholics and their families in Coventry and the Midlands

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS IN COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY UNDERGONE PRIMARY TREATMENT FOR ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL BY THE PROVISION OF QUALIFIED SUPPORT, ADVICE AND TREATMENT AND BY THE PROVISION OF SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION FOR LONG ENOUGH TO AID PERMANENT ABSTINENCE FROM ALCOHOL;(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR PERSONS IN COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE WHO ARE RECOVERING FROM ALCOHOLISM AND CANNOT YET SUPPORT THEMSELVES; AND(3) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: WARWICKSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus on unrestricted funds of £5,820 for the year ended November 2025, with unrestricted funds carried forward totaling £127,189. However, the trustees report that free reserves were significantly below the stated policy target of £105,000, standing at only £22,189. The charity relies heavily on Housing Benefits for 71% of its income and forecasts a deficit of less than £10,000 for the upcoming year.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/11/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• REVEREND FATHER ANTHONY JOHN NORTONchair
• JOHN STEPHEN MCCREA
• Rev TIMOTHY MENEZES

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Leicestershire · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD.

• OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD income £26k
• OPEN HANDS TRUST (LEICESTER) income £566k
• POYNTON OPEN HANDS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £30k
• OPEN HOUSE SHAFTESBURY income £32k
• EACH COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT income £2.2m
• OPEN HANDS REIGATE income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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