Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

OPEN TRAIL

Open Trail encourages disadvantaged children and young people, of Worcestershire and the West Midlands, to strive for more than they think possible despite their own personal circumstances. They use cycling activities forest school to provide opportunities for children and young people to develop their self-confidence, work ethic, emotional resilience and team working skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • 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
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/08/23?£379£94£285n/a
30/09/22£94£70£24n/a
30/09/21£50£52£-2n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.opentrail.co.uk

hannah@opentrail.co.uk

07790690078

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Social clubs and similar
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dudley, Sandwell, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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
Wolfson Foundation£56,000
Sport England£33,000
DCMS£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,950
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 22/08/2023
Sustainable Growth and Impact
Sport England - PTR: Burlish Bike Park
£8,000 08/08/2023
The project will convert an existing informal cycle area into a designed and constructed MTB and BMX facility for all levels (4 levels of loops) including learn to ride area. There will be changing and basic catering facilities on site.
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£3,660 30/06/2023
To teach 200 disadvantaged children, age 9-16 to ride a bike for the first time to improve their confidence, resilience and independence
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Open Trail
£56,000 08/06/2023
Outdoor community centre offering training and support to adults with mental health needs
National Lottery Community Fund - Kinver Forest School
£10,000 27/05/2022
The funding will be used to develop a site for use as a forest school to include disabled access. Participants will be children aged 3-12 youth groups SEN and disability groups. The redeveloped site itself will be accessible to the wider public ....more
Sport England - PTR: Burlish Bike Park
£25,000 22/02/2022
Funding under Sport England's Places to Ride Facilities Programme funding programme for a Capital project titled PTR: Burlish Bike Park. This project lists its main activity as Cycling.
DCMS - ALB-Sport England-PTR: Burlish Bike Park
£25,000 22/02/2022
Funding under Sport England's Places to Ride Facilities Programme funding programme for a Capital project titled PTR: Burlish Bike Park. This project lists its main activity as Cycling.
National Lottery Community Fund - This Is Me
£9,950 29/10/2020
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The funding will be used to deliver outdoor play and learning activities for vulnerable young people. The project aims to develop confidence self-belief resilience in young people during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

  • DAVID ESCOTT Appointed: 2024
  • DIANE ESCOTT Appointed: 2020
  • ROBERT LLOYD Appointed: 2024
  • TAMAZIN RANDLE Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/08/2020, number: 1190929
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from OPEN TRAIL on 10/11/2022
Main office

54 Holmcroft Road
KIDDERMINSTER
DY10 3AG

Objectives

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE UK PUBLIC IN TOPICS OF CYCLING, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 2. TO ADVANCE HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF CYCLING FOREST SCHOOL, AND AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE. 3. TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. 4. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED THROUGH LACK OF AFFORDABLE TRANSPORT ALTERNATIVES AND TRAINING, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. 5. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY. 6. THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR CYCLING AND FOREST SCHOOL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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