OPEN WAY

Registered charity 1122055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are working to alleviate extreme poverty in Ethiopia. Current activities include: enabling access to medical help for those who otherwise can not obtain it; enabling poor children to gain access to free early years education; providing assistance for elderly and vulnerable people who have no help from any other source; providing food aid and long-term support when needed due to emergencies.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUFFERING RELATED TO THE LACK OF BASIC NEEDS FOR PEOPLE OF ANY AGE OR CULTURAL BACKGROUND IN POOR COUNTRIES WITH THE AIM OF BETTERING THEIR PRESENT SITUATION AND IMPROVE THEIR CHANCES OF FUTURE SELF-RELIABILITY.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN POOR COUNTRIES IN THE SUBJECTS OF: HEALTH; AND THE CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WORLD-WIDE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's end-of-year unrestricted balance is £3,442.56, which is significantly below the trustees' stated aim to hold reserves of around 4 to 6 months. The trustees declare that the charity has no funds in deficit and that the accounts were prepared on a receipts and payments 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nick Osbornechair
• Maria Lopez

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

Operates in: Ethiopia

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 AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £111k
• ETHIOPIAID income £3.1m
• THE BAND AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.5m
• Together We Learn income £360k
• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• BETTER WAY RECOVERY income £566k

Side by side with its peers

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