MEDWAY OPEN AWARD CENTRE

Charity number: 1172240
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Medway Open Award Centre, is a Charitable Interest Organisation set up as a Directly Licenced Centre in which young people can readily access cost effective, knowledge, advice and assistance to facilitate, their achievement of a Duke of Edinburgh's Award at any level. The centre will be staffed by volunteers who believe in the ethos of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £45,447
Total expenditure: £43,043

People

5 Trustee(s)

25 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

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:
  • Education/training
  • Recreation
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
  • Medway

Governance

Registration history:
  • 24 March 2017: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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

5 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
ROBERT ANDREW PHILIP WOOD Chair 07 April 2017
None on record
STEVEN MARK SHORT Trustee 26 June 2024
None on record
Alexandra Nicole Chinn Trustee 25 January 2022
None on record
GARY JOHN HACKWELL Trustee 07 April 2017
None on record
MALCOLM DAVID ROBERT HUTTON Trustee 07 April 2017
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £68.62k £8.33k £28.87k £39.64k £45.45k
Total expenditure £46.00k £21.32k £21.63k £31.37k £43.04k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A £6.53k £12.67k N/A N/A

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
Annual return 31 March 2024 11 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 11 January 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 08 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 08 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 17 December 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 17 December 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 19 November 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 19 November 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 12 October 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 12 October 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 24 Mar 2017

Charitable objects

TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE MEDWAY TOWNS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND STAFF TO OFFER SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE ACCESS TO TRAINING COURSES, SPECIALIST EXPEDITION TRAINING AND EXPEDITIONS WHICH WILL ENABLE THEM TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION AND BE ACCREDITED TOWARDS SUCH SCHEMES AS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD PROGRAMME, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Contact information

Address:
Summit House
Strand Approach Road
GILLINGHAM
ME7 1TT
Phone:
01634 577766
Email:
info@moac.co.uk
Website:

moac.co.uk