Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

OPEN ROAD VISIONS 

Open Road exists in order to reduce the harmful impact of drugs and alcohol on users, their families, partners and society. We also support young people and vulnerable adults in police custody, to ensure that their welfare is respected. Open Road values and respects the diversity of all and is committed to ensuring we fully represent the people we serve.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 31 years

www.openroad.org.uk

info@openroad.org.uk

01206 369782

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£3,902£3,662£240£13£2,924£2,4848.1113130
31/03/22£3,299£2,911£388£0£2,695£2,2909.4107170
31/03/21£3,028£2,740£288£0£2,205£1,7817.8107150
31/03/20£2,988£2,954£33£0£1,487£1,2655.190179
31/03/19£3,221£3,215£6£7£1,454£1,0203.898190
31/03/18£2,986£2,940£46£8£1,448£9854930
31/03/17£3,308£3,203£105£8£1,402£9043.41000
31/03/16£3,296£3,193£103£9£1,296£8153.1950
31/03/15£3,315£3,241£74£18£1,194£7472.8780
31/03/14£2,991£3,061£-70£18£1,120£7192.8830
31/03/13£2,971£2,890£81£42£1,190£7813.2710
31/03/12£2,910£2,940£-30£108£1,110£6882.8740
31/03/11£2,159£2,162£-4£122£1,140£6153.4530
31/03/10£1,956£1,943£13£54£1,143£5803.6420
31/03/09£1,663£1,273£390£33£1,131£4944.7350
31/03/08£1,151£1,169£-18£61£741£4584.7320
31/03/07£1,053£904£149£26£759£4696.2260
31/03/06£750£734£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05?*£652£618£34£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/04£669£550£119£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 8.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex, Medway,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 113 employees
  • 130 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Essex Community Foundation£123,395
BBC Children in Need£51,188
Charles Hayward Foundation£45,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£500 23/02/2023
support for a project in Southend-on-Sea to improve the personal safety of young people and reduce anti-social behaviour
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£5,000 03/11/2022
to support people with drug and alcohol related problems in Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£4,200 04/08/2022
to increase the level of support and activities available at a Colchester based parent and baby group focusing on substance use and recovery
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£7,310 07/06/2022
to support the maintenance of the Colchester SOS bus and provide training and equipment for the volunteers who run it
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£5,000 03/02/2022
to run an awareness and prevention campaign on the issue of spiking in Colchester and Chelmsford
National Lottery Community Fund - Hidden Harm
£9,999 10/12/2021
The funding will be used to continue providing a community-based ‘hidden harm’ service for individuals and families whose wellbeing is affected by family substance misuse. The project aims to ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£22,500 29/11/2021
Community Liaison Worker for a new Inside Out Project at HM YOI Cookham Wood
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£5,000 28/10/2021
to support people with drug and alcohol related problems in Essex
Sport England - TGC CF Yoga and Meditation
£5,325 25/08/2021
11
The project will deliver a series of yoga and meditation sessions to women who are on probation, women living in local refuges, all of which have issues with drug or alcohol misuse.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Open Road Visions
£35,000 13/07/2021
Refurbishment of a building for a charity supporting recovery of alcohol and substance misuse in Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£9,610 18/03/2021
to fund a part-time digital content co-ordinator to help provide information about services and treatment programmes of a drug and alcohol charity in Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£3,000 18/03/2021
to support a project which reduces anti-social behaviour and street drinking in Clacton town centre
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£5,000 20/11/2020
To support people with drug and alcohol related problems in Essex.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£27,627 06/10/2020
To improve IT and operations of an organisation helping those with substance misuse, in the justice system or other complex issues during COVID19, across Essex
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£22,500 24/09/2020
Community Liaison Worker for a new Inside Out Project at HM YOI Cookham Wood
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Open Road Visions
£51,188 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver online support to children and young people in Medway at risk due to parental substance abuse, exacerbated by Covid-19. It will improve emotional wellbeing, ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,985 07/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£10,000 07/05/2020
towards the additional running costs, incurred by the COVID19 lockdown, of a charity delivering support to people with drugs and alcohol problems throughout Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£19,600 03/03/2020
8
To establish unmet need and provide tailored mental health and substance misuse support to the LGBTQ+ community in Colchester and Tendring in partnership with Outhouse East
Essex Community Foundation - Womens Courses for Confidence: Firebreak Training (Level 2)
£3,800 06/02/2020
11
To help run a women-only Firebreak course for female offenders and other vulnerable women from the Colchester area
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£5,000 23/01/2020
To pilot auricular acupuncture therapy for people in West Essex who are struggling with substance misuse
Essex Community Foundation - WOW: Pathways for progression for women leaving prison and on probation
£7,748 12/12/2019
11
To continue the Women only Workshops to provide enhanced support for those who are leaving prison and on probation across Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£5,000 16/09/2019
To support people with drug and alcohol related problems in Essex.
National Lottery Community Fund - Providing postive experiances
£8,870 04/07/2019
12
The organisation will run a programme of diversionary activities for young people impacted by substance misuse with a view to improving their health and wellbeing and future development.
Essex Community Foundation - Women's Firebreak Course
£4,450 08/02/2019
11
To help run a women-only Firebreak course for female offenders from across the county
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£7,800 04/02/2019
Our project will meet all 3 objectives, which is designed to support the women to build skills and confidence, improve their health and well-beginning as well develop and build social networks. ....more
Essex Community Foundation - WOW (Women only Wednesdays) Project
£7,800 18/12/2018
11
To support women on probation from prison across Essex to re-enter society and rebuild their lives
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Road
£5,000 17/10/2018
To support people with drug and alcohol related problems in Essex.
Essex Community Foundation - Open Road SOS Bus Projects
£3,500 07/02/2018
11
To deliver first aid training to volunteers and provide resources for the Chelmsford SOS Bus
Essex Community Foundation - Chelmsford SOS Project
£7,500 04/08/2017
0
To help purchase a vehicle for the new SOS Bus service in Chelmsford City
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Open Road
£94,700 09/05/2017
Healthy Heritage Project: Nature Care & Recovery
Essex Community Foundation - Family & Carers Recovery Project (Clacton)
£8,400 24/03/2017
11
To establish a Family and Carers Recovery Project in Clacton
National Lottery Community Fund - The SWEAT (Steroids, Weights, Education and Therapy) Project
£442,460 16/11/2016
36
The project will support those at risk of or affected by the unregulated use of image and performance enhancing drugs (anabolic steroids, growth hormones and fat-loss hormones). They aim to raise ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Essex Stimulant Service for Problematic Drug Users
£285,359 08/08/2011
60
This project will restart a project that ended last year to provide direct support to substance misusers to help them to become abstinent from drugs. It supports recovery from addiction to drugs such ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Support and Community Integration
£184,050 11/02/2010
48
A new project based in Essex, Open Road Visions provides psychosocial interventions, crisis support, needle exchange and harm minimisation for local alcohol and drug addicts. The group will use the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-79
  • MARTIN MEARS Appointed: 1996, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • NIGEL SOUTH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Academic Professor
  • SEENA SHAH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Communications
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/04/1993, number: 1019915
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/04/1993, number: 02806113
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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

Open Road Visions
12 North Hill
Colchester
CO1 1DZ

Objectives

The Charity?s object (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to: (a) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the practice of holistic or other forms of medicine or therapy or care, in particular for the relief or rehabilitation of persons suffering from alcohol, drug or other physical or psychological addiction, illness, dependency, or the effects thereof, or others who have suffered from the effects of such physical or psychological addiction or illness within their household and/or family or who work with organisations which deal with such effects; (b) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the provision of education and training to persons suffering from alcohol drug or other psychological addiction or illness or others who have suffered from the effects of such physical or psychological addiction or illness within their household and/or family or who work for organisations which deal with such effects; (c) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the practice of holistic or other forms of medicine or therapy and in particular for the relief or rehabilitation of persons suffering from the effects of bereavement or requiring counselling or other therapeutic input in relation to psychological or emotional illnesses or conditions including vulnerable persons who are resident in woman?s refuges, prisoners, offenders on licence or probation, or minors suffering from such conditions or who require mentoring, development, education or support services whilst engaged with the criminal justice system to enable them to lead purposeful, stable and crime free lives for the benefit of the public; and (d) To relieve the needs of homeless and vulnerable people in and around Essex by the provision of homeless prevention support services.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE COLCHESTER AND SURROUNDING AREA AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

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