OPPORTUNITIES R UN LIMITED

Registered charity 1162465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main activity of the charity is the promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing adults with learning difficulties and/or additional needs including mental health from becoming socially excluded from society, relieving their needs and helping them to integrate in to society. We work with a variety of day and home care providers to offer opportunities every day..

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING ADULTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND/OR ADDITIONAL NEEDS FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF THEIR LEARNING DISABILITY, RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS AND HELPING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY:(I) PROVIDING STIMULATING EXPERIENCES, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TO MAXIMISE THEIR OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.(II) PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, ADVOCACY AND GENERAL SUPPORT.(III) FOCUSING ON THEIR ABILITY RATHER THAN DISABILITY.2. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF ADULTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND OR ADDITIONAL NEEDS BY:(I) PROVIDING EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TO SUPPORT AND ENABLE ADULTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND OR ADDITIONAL NEEDS TO MAKE INFORMED LIFESTYLE CHOICES.(II) PROVIDING WORKSHOPS AND LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES AND ACTIVITIES.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds are in surplus by £49,423, representing a decrease from the previous year's £54,174. The charity reports a net incoming resource deficit of £4,751 for the year ended 30 November 2025. The trustees' report indicates that the charity needs sufficient free reserves to cover six months of forward expenditure, though it has not yet built up unrestricted reserves to meet this target.

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.

• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09327051 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• COSGROVE, Louise — director, appointed 15/01/2019on trustee list
• SMITH, Heather Jane — director, appointed 15/01/2019on trustee list
• BYATT, Lorna Patricia — director, appointed 25/11/2014not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Elaine — director, appointed 25/11/2014not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Jennifer Rose — director, appointed 25/11/2014not on trustee list
• MUNTS, Susan Mary — director, appointed 25/11/2014not on trustee list
• GODDARD, Hazel — director, appointed 25/11/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUE MUNTSchair
• HAZEL DOREEN GODDARD FED SEN
• Heather Jane Smith
• Louise Cosgrove
• MRS J TAYLOR
• MRS L BYATT
• MS E TAYLOR

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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