THE OPEN CENTRE

Registered charity 516633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of religious, cultural and arts activities.

Objects

TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF THE TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY LESS FAVOURABLY THAN OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ON GROUNDS OF COLOUR RACE NATIONALITY OR ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGINS AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £799 for the year ended 31 March 2025, attributing this to an investment in staff. Per the directors' report, this investment has provided more stability and competitive pay, helping to improve planning and resource allocation. The balance sheet shows net current assets of £72,664, with retained earnings decreasing from £73,463 to £72,664.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bilal Hussain
• Gail Whitehead
• KATHRYN MCRAE
• Russell Pollard
• Valerie Watson

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IMPACT CENTRE.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IMPACT CENTRE income £107k
• Open City income £1.1m
• OPEN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS income £3.1m
• UK AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST LTD income £188k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• THE PETER ASHLEY ACTIVITY CENTRES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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