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OPEN FOR BUSINESS LIMITED

Registered charity 1184327 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, the promotion of equality and diversity throughoutthe world by:- the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of gender or sexual orientation, especially withinbusiness and commerce;- advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity;- conducting or commissioning research on equality and diversity issues

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.1m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £179,146 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,071,922 and expenditure of £1,251,068. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern with adequate financial resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of core staff costs, together with an additional buffer of approximately 10% of annual staff costs (held: £228k)
“The Charity’s reserves policy is to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level sufficient to cover three to six months of core staff costs, together with an additional buffer of approximately 10% of annual staff costs to meet other essential operating commitments. Based on the 2026 budget, this equates to a target range of approximately £198,000 to £398,000.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Rent received from Brunswick Group LLP, in which trustee Jon Miller is a partner.
“During the year, the charitable company received gifts in kind totalling £27,000 (2024: £25,200) in relation to rent from Brunswick Group LLP, in which Jon Miller (trustee) is a partner. Jon Miller also made unrestricted donations in the year of £500 (2024: £Nil). During the year, the Charity received donations totalling £500 (2024: £4,200) from trustees. No restrictions were attached to these donations. During the year, the Charity incurred expenditure on research services of £nil (2024: £2,000) from Edgevisory Limited, a company in which Ken Janssens (former trustee and current Chief Executive Officer) is a director. Edgevisory Limited also made donations in the year totalling £nil (2024: £5,000). During the year, the Charity received a short-term loan of £nil (2024: £25,630) from a trustee. This loan was unsecured, interest free and repaid within the prior year. Open for Business is a member of ILGA, in which Gurchaten Sandhu (trustee) is Director of Programmes, and during the year paid membership fees totalling CHF200 (2024: CHF200). Page 38” — page 40
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.1m
Total spending
£1.3m
Reserves (reported)
£228k
Employees
8

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Barbados · Hungary · Kenya · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.1m£1.3m
31/12/2024£1.7m£1.8m
31/12/2023£894k£865k
31/12/2022£622k£561k
31/12/2021£522k£330k

Common questions

Is OPEN FOR BUSINESS LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £179,146 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,071,922 and expenditure of £1,251,068. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern with adequate financial resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Goodman Jones LLP.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
JOHN LYON'S CHARITY1£60k
THE NISBET TRUST1£30k
THE HILDEN CHARITABLE FUND1£14k
THE MARCHUS TRUST1£5k
EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATION1£5k
THE THOMAS WALL TRUST1£5k
SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION1£5k
CAREW POLE CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
OPEN FOR BUSINESS LIMITED£1.1m——within—no doubt
STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY FY2025£775k—0within—no doubt
Open City FY2025£1.1m—0below—no doubt
THE OPEN CENTRE FY2025£102k—0unclear—no doubt
LGB ALLIANCE FY2024£383k——unclear—no doubt
DIVERSITY VOICE FY2025£407k£60,001 - £70,0001below—no doubt

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