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.

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE OF HODGE HILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.3.2 TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF HODGE HILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.3.3 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS OBJECT "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: YOUTH, AGE, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL HEALTH, UNEMPLOYMENT, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF ETHNICITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION OR POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT;3.4 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG THE PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY RESIDENTS OF HODGE HILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS;3.5 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF HODGE HILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH ACTIVITIES OR FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND GENERAL CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.THE ABOVE OBJECTS SHALL BE DELIVERED AT ALL TIMES WITH CONSIDERATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

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

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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.

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)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gemma Louise Hayden
• 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
• Sarah Elizabeth Maxfield

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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