OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1164850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
We seek the wellbeing of people in our neighbourhood through:Unlocking and connecting local people?s passions and skills, working with people to help them overcome barriers to them making confident contributions within their neighbourhood, and being a ?seedbed? for innovative forms of local, associational life. We work using the principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £26,943 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £89,242 to £62,299. Per the trustees' report, free reserves have grown significantly but remain below the stated policy target of three months' salary costs and legal obligations. The going concern basis is dependent on continued support from key funders and the securing of further grants.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £34k; policy: 3 months salary costs (including redundancy payments) and the fulfilment of any other legal obligations (e.g. rent))
“At the time of writing, free reserves have grown significantly since our last report, but need to continue to do so.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“The validity of this assumption is dependent upon the continuance of support from the Company's key funders and in response to the progress made by the Company in pursuing a viable budget including the obtaining of further grants and other funds.” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Big Lottery — “The Firs and Bromford estate in east Birmingham is benefitting from an extra £375,000 of investment over the next three years, thanks to a ‘…” (source page)
- Gloria Diane Smith
- Jonathan Robert Miles · trustee of 1 other charity
- PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES HODGE HILL
- PENELOPE JANE HALL
- Rev ALISTAIR DAVID BARRETT
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Birmingham City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £26,943 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £89,242 to £62,299. Per the trustees' report, free reserves have grown significantly but remain below the stated policy target of three months' salary costs and legal obligations. The going concern basis is dependent on continued support from key funders and the securing of further grants. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE SHELDON TRUST, THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SAINTBURY TRUST, THE GRIMMITT TRUST, THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST.
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