MEDWAY OPEN AWARD CENTRE

Registered charity 1172240 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Medway Open Award Centre, is a Charitable Interest Organisation set up as a Directly Licenced Centre in which young people can readily access cost effective, knowledge, advice and assistance to facilitate, their achievement of a Duke of Edinburgh's Award at any level. The centre will be staffed by volunteers who believe in the ethos of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Objects

TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE MEDWAY TOWNS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND STAFF TO OFFER SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE ACCESS TO TRAINING COURSES, SPECIALIST EXPEDITION TRAINING AND EXPEDITIONS WHICH WILL ENABLE THEM TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION AND BE ACCREDITED TOWARDS SUCH SCHEMES AS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD PROGRAMME, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is financially secure with a reserve fund held. The charity reported a net surplus of £7,972 for the period, increasing its cash funds to £96,968. No principal risks were identified in the filing.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT ANDREW PHILIP WOODchair
• Alexandra Nicole Chinn
• GARY JOHN HACKWELL
• MALCOLM DAVID ROBERT HUTTON
• STEVEN MARK SHORT

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

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