THE OPEN BIONICS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1186502 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides financial assistance to enable people, in need of a multi-functional upper limb prosthetic device and associated professional fitting services, who would not otherwise be able to take advantage of such technology. It is able to help people of all ages worldwide, if necessary.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward were £310,306, with unrestricted funds of £26,739. The trustees report that the charity held reserves of £312,360 to cover one year's operating costs, although the net movement in funds for the year was a deficit of £17,974.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Melville
• John Steven Whitman
• Linzi Lumbley

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION.

• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• PHYSIONET FOUNDATION CIO income £163k
• REACH CHARITY LIMITED income £208k
• AMPUTATION FOUNDATION income £135k
• CARETECH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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