Bedfordshire Open Door
Charity number: 1053008
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
We provide a free counselling service for young people aged 13-25 years and cover Bedfordshire.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £338,262
Total expenditure: £340,314
Total income includes £45,000 from 1 government grant(s)
People
10 Trustee(s)
30 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
- Bedford
- Central Bedfordshire
Governance
Registration history:
- 21 February 1996: Standard registration
- 06 May 2025: Funds received from 1154339 BEDFORD COUNSELLING CENTRE
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- BEDFORD OPEN DOOR (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
10 Trustee(s)
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| Samantha Pearce | Chair | 22 May 2023 |
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| Mark Harris | Trustee | 09 August 2025 |
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| Fiona Allen | Trustee | 09 August 2025 |
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| Vijay Sisodia | Trustee | 14 April 2025 |
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| Mika Saha | Trustee | 14 April 2025 |
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| Dr Hilde Hendrickx | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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| Keiron Fletcher | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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| Yannik MacKenzie | Trustee | 26 November 2024 |
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| Anastassia Parsons | Trustee | 03 October 2024 |
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| Olatunji Atunrase | Trustee | 19 July 2012 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £282.13k | £416.56k | £310.70k | £287.52k | £338.26k | |
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Total expenditure | £224.36k | £305.25k | £352.82k | £341.45k | £340.31k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | £144.54k | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £4.80k | £85.15k | N/A | £54.90k | £45.00k |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 09 January 2026 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 09 January 2026 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 20 December 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 20 December 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 08 February 2024 | 8 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 08 February 2024 | 8 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 18 January 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 18 January 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 18 January 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 18 January 2022 | On time |