OPEN HOUSE SHAFTESBURY

Registered charity 1184625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Distribution of emergency aid, including food parcels.Provide advice and assistance with completing benefit & housing claims, personal budgeting & letters to utilities & other creditors.Allocation & delivery of donated furniture & white goods etc. to qualifying clients.

Objects

THE CIO IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SHAFTESBURY, GILLINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES, TO BE DEFINED AS THE AREA COVERED BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES WITHIN THE SHAFTESBURY TEAM MINISTRY, THE BENEFICE OF GILLINGHAM AND MILTON ON STOUR, THE ST BARTHOLOMEW BENEFICE AND THE PARISH OF FONTMELL MAGNA ("THE SPECIFIED AREA"). SUCH ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS:(1) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION. (2) 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 PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document is limited to the Independent Examiner's Report for Open House Shaftesbury for the year ended 31 March 2026. The examiner confirms that no material matters were found regarding the keeping of accounting records, their accord with the accounts, or compliance with the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. The examiner notes the accounts are 'well presented' with 'cross referencing and tracablity' and expresses no concerns requiring further attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Stewart Baddeleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Thomas Kirkham
• Helen Jupp
• Sheela Vishnu Upton
• gordon clowrey · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT.

• THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT income £108k
• OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD income £26k
• CRAWLEY OPEN HOUSE income £2.1m
• OPEN HOMES NOTTINGHAM income £149k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• CROYDON AFFORDABLE HOUSING income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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