THE OPEN TABLE NETWORK

Registered charity 1193868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Enables Open Table communities for LGBTQIA people hosted by affiliated churches. Resources Open Table communities, churches, individuals, and the wider community, by providing signposting, training, events, materials and support. Maintains an online presence offering solidarity and signposting for LGBTQIA people. Works in partnership to share best practice and amplify marginalised voices.

Objects

The object of the CIO is the promotion of equality and diversity, and the relief of those in need for the public benefit, particularly in the area of LGBTQIA+ equality in religious organisations in the UK, by:(a) building a network of mutually supportive communities for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex or asexual (LGBTQIA+) across the UK, to ensure they have equal access to a community where faith and LGBTQIA+ identities can be explored and celebrated in safe, non-judgmental spaces(b) relieving mental and emotional distress, reducing social isolation and promoting mental, spiritual and physical well-being for isolated, unsupported LGBTQIA+ people who seek the potential well-being provided by a faith community but currently find no welcome, affirmation or tolerance in many faith communities, by training and supporting OTN community leaders to provide long-term unconditional welcome to LGBTQIA+ people, their families and friends c) providing activities and information to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and cultivate a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £3,946 and unrestricted reserves of £19,565. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are equivalent to around five months of projected operating expenditure, which is comfortably within the stated policy target of three months. The charity notes that income decreased significantly due to the Director working part-time, but reserves have increased from the previous year.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Carol Anne Joynerchair
• Andrew George Stewart
• Craig Thomas Bailey JP
• Esther Arwen Dix
• Neil Gordon Rees
• Rev Aiyana Gardner-Houghton
• Rev CALUM DUGALD FERGUSON CROMBIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jayne Alison Taylor · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Rosemary Elizabeth Hill
• Rev Yin-An Chen

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Government & lottery funding

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