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

Objects

TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP, NEED AND DISTRESS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICKSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES (INCLUDING SPECIFICALLY THE AREAS COVERED BY COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL; TAMWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL; LICHFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL; HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL; BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL AND EAST STAFFORDSHIRE BOROUGH COUNCIL), IN PARTICULAR THOSE BETWEEN 16 AND 25 YEARS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Nuneaton and Bedworth, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £147,575 at 31 March 2026, which is below the charity's stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of budgeted expenditure. The trustees and auditor have confirmed the charity is a going concern, though the auditor noted that this depends on continued support from key grant funders.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SFB Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jenni Muskett — Chief Executive Officer (source)

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).

• Co-op Local Community Fund — “Co-op Members can support our Healthwise Wellbeing Project, every time they shop” (source page)
• Borough Lottery — “Win prizes up to £25,000! Supporting your community and Doorway.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Smithchair
• JIM CRAWSHAW
• LESLEY NELSON
• LYNN PAYNE
• SUSAN PEARSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sean Percy

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES AREA DOORSTEP.

• GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES AREA DOORSTEP income £1.2m
• DOORWAY WILTSHIRE LTD income £328k
• GATEWAYS income £878k
• PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE LTD income £2.3m
• THE DOOR YOUTH PROJECT income £749k
• OPEN DOOR, YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION SERVICE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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