THURROCK OPEN DOOR

Registered charity 1125477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Information and Advice Service for children, young people and vulnerable adults. Counselling, Mentoring,Housing & Benefits Advice, Advocacy for Children & Young People in Care.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE MENTAL, PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND VULNERABLE ADULTS.PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Thurrock, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves have reduced to £871,566 as at 31 March 2025, a decrease from £1,018,844 the previous year, due to planned expenditure exceeding budgeted income. The trustees report that unrestricted funds stand at £335,198, which they note is still equal to almost 18 months' worth of expenditure at 2024-25 levels of activity. The charity operated a deficit in the year under review, utilizing reserves to support running costs and fund projects despite limited new or ongoing funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clemence Hoar Cummings. Discloses 6 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
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £88k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 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 (96% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARGARET FALLchair
• Aaron Green
• Andrew Douglas Porter
• JOHANNE HAYES
• Jamila Tazeena Daley-Jeffers
• Tony Fish

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT.

• THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT income £108k
• Bedfordshire Open Door income £338k
• OPEN DOOR, YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION SERVICE income £1.6m
• OPEN DOOR YOUTH COUNSELLING LTD income £144k
• ANCHOR-THE COUNSELLING PRACTICE income £363k
• OPEN DOOR SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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