DOORWAY

Registered charity 1176552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Doorways works with vulnerable young people 16-25 years who are homeless, vulnerably housed or in housing need in Warwickshire. The Charity's core services are Housing Advice, Support and Development. All services work closely together to provide appropriate options for young people to enable clients to manage successful, sustained independent living

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.1m
Latest spending
£927k
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £659,155, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of 3 to 6 months of budgeted expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £134,495 for the year and confirmed it is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Charitable activities
“Our largest income source was through rental income and other sources included large and small grants, fundraising, donations, service level agreements and contracts.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to six months of budgeted expenditure (held: £659k)
“It has established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets held by Doorway should be between 3 and 6 months of budgeted expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Doorway (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.1m
Total spending
£927k
Cost of raising funds
£857
Reserves (reported)
£668k
Employees
17

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.1m£927k
31/03/2024£996k£870k
31/03/2023£786k£787k
31/03/2022£735k£754k
31/03/2021£822k£728k

Common questions

Is DOORWAY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £659,155, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of 3 to 6 months of budgeted expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £134,495 for the year and confirmed it is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds DOORWAY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DOORWAY as a grant recipient include LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALES, THE SHELDON TRUST, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON, Alex Ferry Foundation, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHIPPENHAM (ST ANDREW) WITH TYTHERTON LUCAS.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALESFY2024£75khomelessness charity in Wiltshire
LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALESFY2023£50kHomelessness charity in Wiltshire/Chippenham
THE SHELDON TRUSTFY2022£30kYouth Development
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDONFY2022£18kGrants awarded to groups within Wiltshire totalling £12,000 per group
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDONFY2023£12k
THE SHELDON TRUSTFY2023£10kYouth Development
Alex Ferry FoundationFY2024£4kCommunity Grants
Alex Ferry FoundationFY2023£3kCommunity grants
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHIPPENHAM (ST ANDREW) WITH TYTHERTON LUCASFY2022£1kRegular Giving Distributed :Local
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHIPPENHAM (ST ANDREW) WITH TYTHERTON LUCASFY2024£1kLocal
WATES FAMILY ENTERPRISE TRUSTFY2021£500100 for 500
WATES FAMILY ENTERPRISE TRUSTFY2022£500100 for 500
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHIPPENHAM (ST ANDREW) WITH TYTHERTON LUCASFY2023£500Regular Giving Distributed :Local

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/04/2026£400kThe Thrive project
The National Lottery Community Fund09/04/2026£13kJourneys: Empowering Young People on the Move
The National Lottery Community Fund26/01/2023£407kDoorway Advice Service
Crowdfunder05/05/2022£7kLocal Action Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund02/06/2020£57kDoorway
The National Lottery Community Fund04/05/2016£370kDoorway Advice Service
The National Lottery Community Fund13/07/2011£333kYPAS (Young Peoples Advice Service)

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF EXETER YMCA.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DOORWAY£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt
CITY OF EXETER YMCA FY2025£2.3m—0below—no doubt
MOVING ON (DURHAM) LTD FY2025£2.3m£60,001 - £70,000—unclear—no doubt
GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES AREA DOORSTEP FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
Stay Charity FY2025£2.2m—0unclear—no doubt
OPEN DOOR, YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION SERVICE FY2025£1.6m——above—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.