Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

THURROCK OPEN DOOR 

Open Door helps young people and vulnerable adults experiencing difficulties through a range of support services. It would be difficult to provide these services without the help of our volunteers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 16 years
(18 years as a company)

www.opendoorthurrock.co.uk

general@opendoorservices.org

01375390040

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UN SDGs
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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£549£653£-103£0£1,094£88616.32327
31/03/22£834£617£217£0£1,197£90017.52221
31/03/21£699£524£175£0£980£75817.32219
31/03/20£700£584£116£0£805£71514.72330
31/03/19£745£650£95£0£689£63811.82330
31/03/18£518£664£-146£0£595£55610280
31/03/17£503£670£-167£2£741£69012.4260
31/03/16£884£754£130£2£908£6129.7280
31/03/15£817£853£-36£20£778£4846.8300
31/03/14£1,293£1,276£17£38£814£5014.7410
31/03/13£1,897£1,100£797£60£797£6447320
31/03/12£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/11£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/10£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/09£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 16.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 18 months
Quick Ratio: 25.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 27 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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£382,397
BBC Children in Need£61,799
DCMS£60,211
Essex Community Foundation£33,835
Esmee Fairbairn£18,500
Lloyds Bank Foundation£7,084
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - FV Summer Programme
£7,000 04/04/2023
towards a project providing activities for disadvantaged young people through the summer holidays in Thurrock
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Thurrock Open Door
£61,799 10/08/2021
Advocacy and support for looked after children and young people in Essex. The project aims to help young people to better understand their feelings, improve their self-esteem and develop improved ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Open Door - HASS
£382,397 15/03/2021
36
The funding will help to provide housing advice and support for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in Thurrock Essex. They are requesting £382397 of a total project cost of ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Door Thurrock
£15,000 10/12/2020
to provide group activities for care leavers and face to face counselling for vulnerable young people who are digitally excluded during COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£60,211 29/09/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Thurrock Open Door
£7,084 23/07/2020
Grant to Thurrock Open Door meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Open Door Thurrock
£11,835 15/06/2020
to cover the cost of increased staff hours and associated expense involved in providing increased levels of support to young people and family members who are experiencing anxiety and behavioural ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Thurrock Open Door
£18,500 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Thurrock Open Door
£75,000 18/10/2018
36
The charity supports young people, vulnerable adults and families including care leavers primarily in Thurrock but also across Essex. Funding will cover the costs of the Social Isolation Project for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Interventions
£330,222 30/08/2018
36
This project provides general counselling and therapeutic support for children, young people and families in Thurrock. The service focuses on human interaction and intervention, where a young person ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Open Door Thurrock
£105,381 27/06/2018
36
This project will provide advocacy, mentoring support and activities to children and young people who are in care. This will help raise their confidence, reduce their social isolation and ensure ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Hear Us
£4,980 26/06/2018
12
To support a project for looked after young people to become involved in Thurrock’s Children in Care Council and shape activities reflecting their local community
Essex Community Foundation - SIP- Social Isolation Project
£30,000 28/03/2018
23
To run a Social Isolation Project over two years to build the independence skills of care leavers
Essex Community Foundation - TIME - Reducing Children Missing Episodes
£5,000 08/02/2018
11
To provide a mentoring and support programme for children who repeatedly go missing and runaway from home in Thurrock
National Lottery Community Fund - Open Door - HASS
£377,731 28/06/2017
36
This project will run a drop-in housing and advice service for those experiencing homelessness in Thurrock. Operating at community hubs across the area, the service will provide general housing ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Thurrock Open Door
£14,914 15/03/2017
12
The charity plans to pilot new work in support of young people leaving care. Support will include weekly support groups enabling them to meet with other care leavers and opportunities to gain new ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Thurrock Open Door
£111,000 25/01/2017
36
Towards the salary of a co-ordinator providing mentoring and advocacy for young people who have returned home after running away multiple times.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Open Door
£56,500 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a support project for young people in care in Essex
National Lottery Community Fund - Open Door - Housing Advice and Support Service (HASS)
£312,864 29/04/2013
36
Thurrock Open Door provides specialist housing advice, welfare benefit and grant advice and advocacy for vulnerable adults and young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. It aims ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-66
  • TONY FISH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Youth Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/08/2008, number: 1125477
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/01/2006, number: 05670567
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

16b Orsett Road
Grays
RM17 5DL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE MENTAL, PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND VULNERABLE ADULTS.PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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