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Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

OPEN CITY

To champion the value of well designed place and space in making a liveable and vibrant city and the role everyone play within it
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Income generation is well diversified
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23?£1,163£1,071£92£50£397£3724.214650
31/12/21£898£784£114£75£305£2754.214850
31/12/20£765£728£36£101£191£1913.112854
31/12/19£638£763£-125£21£154£1542.497,090
31/12/18*£747£775£-28£35£279£2794.381,700
31/12/17£793£774£19£2£306£3064.7100
31/12/16£777£704£73£5£288£2824.8100
31/12/15£636£584£52£26£215£2154.470
31/12/14£600£537£63£54£163£1633.670
31/12/13*£561£564£-3£88£100£1002.170
31/12/12£443£658£-215n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£773£746£27£70£319£1923.1120
31/12/10*£705£754£-50£74£292£2924.6140
31/12/09£742£748£-6£75£341£3415.5140
31/12/08?£898£980£-82£67£347£3474.3150
31/01/07£966£942£24£98£147£1471.970
31/01/06£918£929£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/05£645£553£92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/04*£464£447£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 4.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 3.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 26 years
(28 years as a company)

www.open-city.org.uk

hello@open-city.org.uk

02030067008

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£202,693
City Bridge Trust£110,940
Greater London Authority£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Open City
£6,340 25/04/2024
£6,340 over one year towards the costs of training 20 young people from under-represented backgrounds as City Curators, including contribution to OCA?s staff time, overheads, curatorial pay, and project resources.
Greater London Authority - Community Conversation for the Memorial for the Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
£1,000 12/07/2023
This funding will cover a maximum of £1000 towards the costs of hosting a community conversation with your members, networks and participants on the new memorial for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, during July 2023
Greater London Authority - Open City
£1,000 21/06/2023
Towards the costs of hosting a community conversation with your members, networks and participants on the new memorial for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, during June- July 2023
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Open City Architecture
£63,400 09/02/2023
24
£63,400 over two years (£27,200; £36,200) to train 35 young people from under-represented backgrounds as City Curators, including contribution to OCA’s staff time, overheads, curatorial pay, and project resources.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Open City Architecture
£41,200 05/06/2020
£41,200 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
DCMS - Open City Recovery Strategy
£202,693 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 22-74
  • ANNA LIU Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Architect
  • ARETHA AHUNANYA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Designer
  • CAROLYN LARKIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Public Relations
  • DAV BANSAL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Architect
  • DEBORAH DENNER (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee/Director
  • ELEANOR DODD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Trustee/Director
  • JAYDEN ALI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee/Director
  • PETER BURY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • POOJA AGRAWAL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Architect
  • ROLAND OAKSHETT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • SARA HABANANANDA BAILEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee/Director
  • SELINA MASON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Master Planning
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/10/1998, number: 1072104
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/02/1996, number: 03159878
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR18: 78 days late, AR13: 3 days late, AR10: 15 days late, AR04: 16 days late,
Main office

Unit 2
C1 Design District
1a Cripps Yard

Objectives

To foster public appreciation of and advance public education in architecture.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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