Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE OPENING DOORS PROJECT 

The Charity promotes positive mental health in families and adopts a family-centred approach to all activities. Family inclusion is important as collective memories are shared and sustained which reinforces positive mental health. Our services and activities all aim to promote fun, happiness and interaction with the environment. Our play provision and play schemes start with a mindfulness session to focus on emotions, and through this children learn about empathy and the impact their behaviour has on others.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/07/23£125,536£125,361£17512
31/07/22£95,713£102,214£-6,50120
31/07/21£115,702£74,419£41,28312
31/07/20£43,242£33,765£9,47710
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.openingdoorsproject.org.uk

lhnw33054@hotmail.com

07742443240

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 12 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
National Lottery Community Fund£32,427
John Moores Foundation£24,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£11,739
DCMS£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£9,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Parent & Child Football Skills for Fun
£2,475 25/08/2023
To provide parent & child football sessions every Friday during term time which is accessible to all skill levels and allows them to develop skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community connect
£10,000 07/07/2023
The funding will be used to run a full programme of free activities and events to bring people together within their local community to reduce social isolation and promote financial inclusion; and ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - The Community Halloween Project
£2,000 10/10/2022
To deliver a Halloween Fun Day with stalls, shows, games, crafts, food and drinks. To deliver a Zombie Walk event within the local community on halloween. To host a halloween party for children ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Opening Doors Project
£24,000 28/09/2022
Towards salaries
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000 20/09/2022
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 09/09/2022
Community Hub
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Memory Lane
£3,264 08/06/2022
To create an activity timetable to reduce isolation and loneliness for people over 60 and those with dementia.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - The Hive of Activities
£4,000 24/05/2022
To broaden the activities and services available at kid's club, available to all children ages 1-16 and parents.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Sunshine Project
£10,000 14/04/2022
This funding will be used to provide a diverse range of uplifting activities for the local community to take part in. The aim of the project is to reduce loneliness and isolation as well as improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Lets get together
£2,500 13/07/2021
The funding will be used to bring older people within the local community together for afternoon tea to take 40 people on a day drip to a local market and to continue to run a local community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Opening Doors Project COVID-19 Relief
£9,927 19/02/2021
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The funding will be used to continue activities helping local families suffering from various hardships. The project will provide a foodbank service to households with low incomes and therapists will ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 11/02/2021
towards running costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 05/08/2020
"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
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards an adapted summer play scheme.
£1,000 26/06/2020
Towards an adapted summer play scheme.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/07/2019, number: 1184478
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

52 Evered Avenue
LIVERPOOL
L9 2AG

Objectives

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE RICE LANE AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TOADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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