**Registered in England Charity No. 1060002**
## **OPENING DOORS**
**TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **OPENING DOORS**
## **ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **CONTENTS**
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|Trustees' report|1|
|Independent examiner's report|5|
|Statement of financial activities|6|
|Balance sheet|7|
|Notes to the financial statements|8 - 20|
**OPENING DOORS**
## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **Reference and administrative information**
**Registered charity name** Opening Doors **Charity number** 1060002 **Registered address** 38a Bull Close Norwich NR3 1SX **Trustees** Oliver Marshall (Chair) Janet Brandish Rebecca Champion (appointed 10 July 2024) Catharine Huston Paul Mcgrath (appointed 26 April 2024) Rachael Wishart-Punt **Independent examiner** Price Bailey LLP Chartered Accountants Anglia House, 6 Central Avenue St Andrews Business Park Thorpe St Andrew Norwich NR7 0HR
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## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Trustees’ annual report statement**
The Trustees confirm that the annual report and financial statements of the charity comply with current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity’s governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” issued in 2019 (FRS 102).
## **Governance, structure and management –** _How Opening Doors is run_
Opening Doors is an unincorporated charity registered with the Charity Commission number 1060002. The Charity is governed by Constitution (adopted 12 December 1996, amended and adopted 20 January 2005, amended and adopted 19 May 2010, amended and adopted 27 July 2022). There have been no changes in the objectives since the last annual report.
The overall responsibility for the charity sits with the Trustee Board who are appointed within the rules of the Constitution. Trustees are appointed by the Board following a thorough process with key steps including - application form, informal interview, observing Board meetings and DBS checks. Trustees serve on the Board for a period of 3 years, they can then offer to serve another 3 years at which point they must stand down for at least 1 year.
Opening Doors is a user-led organisation and is run day-to-day by a Management Committee made up of 12 members who all have learning disabilities. The Officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary) sit within this group and are selected by the committee every 2 years.
## **Managing risks**
Risks are when something could go wrong and are things which threaten the safe running of the charity. Serious risks could result in the Charity closing. Managing risk is one of the duties of the Trustee Board and is done by completing a risk list regularly and by having clear policies which are reviewed at least once each year.
Trustees at Opening Doors monitor the principal risks and uncertainties by way of maintaining policies, systems and procedures to mitigate those risks.
## **Objects and activities –** _Why we are here and what we do_
Our mission is for all adults with learning disabilities in Norfolk to be confident individuals, controlling their own lives and making their own decisions, with support from people they trust.
Every charity has aims which show what the charity is trying to do, these are called objects. Opening Doors has 3 charitable objects set out in our Constitution.
- To provide training and education for people with learning disabilities in Norfolk so people learn new skills and gain in confidence to help them take part in their community.
- To train people who do not have a learning disability so they understand the rights and needs of people with learning disabilities.
- To work on things that are important to people with learning disabilities - taking part in research and sharing what we find with other organisations.
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## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
The main activities Opening Doors does to achieve the charitable aims:
- Running self advocacy groups across Norfolk
- Providing specialist individual advocacy support
- Publishing accessible newsletters and mailouts
- Working closely with health and social care partners to improve accessibility and access of services and hosting a monthly Health Experts coproduction group
- Running Training Groups to enable adults to develop skills and confidence in leading training
- Holding training sessions and events for people with learning disabilities
- Writing and delivering training sessions for workers, students and professionals
- Holding monthly Management Committee and Trustee Board meetings to enable the charity to be run **by** and **for** people with learning disabilities
- Providing easy read translation services
- Designing and running accessible consultations and workshops
- Running projects designed to improve skills and address issues negatively affecting the lives of people with learning disabilities
- Supporting people with learning disabilities to take part in research
- Enabling researchers to engage with the community of people with learning disabilities
## **Public Benefit**
Our Trustees understand the Charity Commission guidance about public benefit and make sure the work of Opening Doors fits within these rules.
## **Achievements and performance –** _what we have done and highlights of this year_
We have lots to be proud of as we look at the last year. Financially it has been challenging but this is a year where we have taken advice and worked with independent consultants to write the application to set up Opening Doors CIO with the aim of becoming incorporated to make our organisation safer, stronger and fit for the future.
Healthy, Happy, Safe Day 2024 built on the success of the previous year, this time around 750 people with learning disabilities attended. Throughout the day people with and without learning disabilities from across Norfolk took part in an informative, joyful, inclusive and celebratory day.
We have continued working hard to address health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities. Through our ‘Stop our friends dying too young’ project we hosted events, created effective and interactive easy read materials and supported health colleagues to improve their offer for people with learning disabilities. Our coproduction relationship with Norfolk and Waveney ICB has resulted in some real change through the work of our Health Experts group which brings together people with learning disabilities from across the county.
Our new funding relationship with Nationwide Community Fund has enabled us to develop strong partnerships around housing in Norfolk. This project has afforded us the time and resources to train adults to be better able to manage their tenancies. Alongside this we have been able to provide in-depth and long-term individual advocacy support for people living in restrictive places who want to move on.
Through our contract to provide specialist individual advocacy support we have ensured many adults with learning disabilities can safely address issues and crises in their lives. During this year we have supported people with 67 housing issues, resolved 122 mental health advocacy requests and provided targeted advocacy assistance to solve 125 problems needing health advocacy. Alongside this individual work we have continued to run 5 fortnightly self-advocacy groups – including our online LGBT+ group which provides a unique safe space for adults with learning disabilities to explore issues together. The final piece of our main advocacy work is providing peer advocacy support for patients at Broadland Clinic (a secure hospital in Norfolk).
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## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
This year has also seen us developing our skills and work in the field of research – working alongside partners like the ICB and UEA to develop training and resources. This is important work to make sure that people with learning disabilities are not left out of research.
Our Trustees have worked hard to recruit and we now have 6 members of the Board – back in line with the Constitution. The Board have focused on long-term developments such as moving to a safer legal structure, investing time and money into a new website and working with the Management Committee to put in place a savings plan to ensure the organisation makes it through challenging months.
To learn more about our work this year please visit our website to read **Our Impact 2024-2025 –** _**what we did and how it helped people**_ . We want to thank everyone who has supported us this year.
## **Financial review –** _what we have done with our money_
Income in the year totalled £248,107 (2024 - £270,759). Expenditure totalled £295,509 (2024 - £307,074). Closing funds totalled £87,639 (2024 - £135,041) of which £27,959 (2024 - £71,551) is restricted.
## **Reserves policy**
Charities have reserves which are used to pay off any bills if a charity has to close. At Opening Doors we have a Reserves Policy which Trustees review every year to check how much we must put by. Our Trustees have decided that Opening Doors should maintain £80,000 of reserves to cover 3-months costs. The Trustees have looked carefully at all the money and are satisfied this is a safe amount at present. The Board is aware that at the end of the financial year the level of Unrestricted Reserves fell below that stipulated in our own policy. This is partly because of the work being done on the charity structure and website. As a Board, Trustees approved a set of measures including working a savings plan alongside the Management Committee, taking steps to control or reduce costs and offering extra support to fundraisers within the organisation. Board members review the situation with a full financial forecast every month and, having reached the required level of reserves again, we aim to ensure we continue to operate within our own policy to secure the safety of our organisation.
## **Future plans**
- Achieve incorporation of our charity to become a CIO
- Become an accredited Real Living Wage employer
- Increase our commercial income to improve the financial stability of our charity
- Become a leading voice in promoting accessibility and coproduction in research
This report was circulated to all the Trustees and approved unanimously on: 16 July 2025 Signed on behalf of Trustees:
**Oliver Marshall Janet Brandish Rachael Wishart-Punt** Chair Trustee Trustee Cony Hust an Vy. **Catharine Huston Rebecca Champion** Trustee Trustee
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF OPENING DOORS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025 which are set out on pages 6 to 20.
Your attention is to drawn to the fact that the charity has prepared the financial statements in accordance with the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has been withdrawn.
We understand that this has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
- 2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Aaron Widdows ACA FCCA Price Bailey LLP, Chartered Accountants**
Anglia House, 6 Central Avenue St Andrews Business Park Thorpe St Andrew Norwich, Norfolk NR7 0HR
Date: ……………………………………………4 August 2025
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME**
Donations and grants
2
_Income from Charitable activities:_
Training, education and support for people
3
who have learning difficulties
Investment income
**TOTAL INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE**
Costs of raising funds
4
_Expenditure on charitable activities:_
Training, education and support for
5
people who have learning disabilities
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**
**BEING NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**FOR THE YEAR**
Total funds at 1 April 2024
**TOTAL FUNDS 31 MARCH 2025**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**£**
7,237
90,556
1,270|**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**£**
149,044
-
-|**Total Funds**
**2025**
**£**
156,281
90,556
1,270|**Total Funds**
**2024**
**£**
172,069
96,976
1,714|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||99,063|149,044|248,107|270,759|
||17,448
85,425|-
192,636|17,448
278,061|24,071
283,003|
||102,873|192,636|295,509|307,074|
||(3,810)
63,490|(43,592)
71,551|(47,402)
135,041|(36,315)
171,356|
||59,680|27,959|87,639|135,041|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.
The notes on pages 8 to 20 form part of these financial statements.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **BALANCE SHEET AT 31 MARCH 2025**
||||**2025**||**2024**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**FIXED ASSETS**|**Notes**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Tangible fixed assets|10||12,231||10,389|
|**CURRENT ASSETS**||||||
|Debtors|11|14,704||10,733||
|Cash at bank and in hand||75,397||147,055||
|||90,101||157,788||
|Creditors: Amounts due||||||
|within one year|12|(14,693)||(33,136)||
|**NET CURRENT ASSETS**|||75,408||124,652|
|**TOTAL ASSETS LESS**||||||
|**TOTAL LIABILITIES**|||87,639||135,041|
|Restricted funds|13||27,959||71,551|
|Unrestricted funds|13||59,680||63,490|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|||87,639||135,041|
16 July 2025
The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on …………………… and are signed on their behalf by:
…............................................ **Oliver Marshall** Chair
…............................................ **Janet Brandish** Trustee
…............................................ **Rachael Wishart-Punt** Trustee
…............................................ **Catharine Huston** Trustee
…............................................ **Rebecca Champion** Trustee
…............................................
The notes on pages 8 to 20 form part of these financial statements.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **a) General information**
Opening Doors is a Charity registered in the United Kingdom under the Charities Act 2011. The principal office is 38a Bull Close, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1SX.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the Charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
## **b) Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
The financial statements have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair view’. This departure has involved following the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.
Opening Doors meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy.
The charity, being small in size, has used the exemption provided by Charities SORP (FRS 102) under which it is not required to include a cash flow statement as part of the financial statements.
## **c) Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are those which are available for the general purposes of the Charity at the discretion of the Trustees.
Restricted funds are those which have been received for undertaking an activity specified by the donor.
## **d) Going concern**
Following a challenging year the charity has taken great strides to move forward on work to incorporate in order to be better placed to continue the good work, build on our strengths and develop a strong and robust plan for the future. Budgets and forecasts have been prepared for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and as a result, the Trustees’ assessment is that Opening Doors will remain a going concern 12 months from the date of approval of these accounts. Therefore these accounts are prepared on a going concern basis.
The trustees have submitted an application to the Charity Commission for the establishment of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), with the intention that the activities, assets, and liabilities of the current charity may in future be transferred to the new CIO. A proposal will be put to members to approve such a transfer once the CIO is registered. However, no formal decision has yet been made and the charity continues to operate as a going concern in its current legal form.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)**
## **e) Income**
Income is recognised when the Charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
Income is generated through donations, grants and other sources.
## **f) Expenditure**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:
- costs of raising funds comprise the apportionment of staff costs to this area on the basis of time spent raising funds;
- expenditure on charitable activities includes that which relates directly to fulfilling the charitable objectives of the Charity, as outlined in the Trustees' Report.
## **Allocation of support costs**
Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the Charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the Charity's activities. These costs have been allocated to expenditure on charitable activities.
Governance costs are included in support costs and relate to the direct running of the Charity, allowing it to operate and generate the information required for public accountability. They include the costs of accounts preparation and independent examination.
## **g) Tangible Fixed Assets**
Individual fixed assets costing £400 or more are capitalised at cost and are depreciated over their estimated useful economic lives on the following basis:
## **Asset Category**
Leasehold improvements Furniture, fittings and equipment Computer equipment
**Annual Rate** 33% straight line 25% reducing balance 33% reducing balance
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)**
## **h) Debtors and creditors receivable / payable within one year**
Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.
Creditors are recognised when the Charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors are normally recognised at their settlement amount.
## **i) Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and in hand includes cash held in bank accounts. There are no short term investments.
## **j) Financial instruments**
The Charity only has financial assets and liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date. All financial instruments of the charity are measured at cost.
Financial assets include trade debtors and accrued income (but exclude prepayments).
Financial liabilities include trade creditors and accruals but exclude social security and other taxes due.
## **k) Pensions**
The Charity provides a defined contribution pension scheme, whereby the charity and its staff each fund the scheme, managed by a third party provider, the assets of which are held by the provider separately from the assets of the charity. The pension charge in the financial statements represents the amounts payable by the charity to the fund in respect of the period.
## **l) Corporation tax**
The Charity is exempt from taxation in respect of income and capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to the charitable purposes.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)**
## **m) Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty**
In the application of the Charity's accounting policies, which are described above, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from those estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.
The Trustees do not consider that there are any critical judgements or sources of estimation uncertainly in the financial statements.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**2**
**DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
Donations
Grants
Donations
Grants
**3**
**INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
Training, education and support for people
who have learning difficulties
Training, education and support for people
who have learning difficulties
**4**
**COSTS OF RAISING FUNDS**
Fundraisers expenses
Support fees|**Unrestricted**
**2025**
**£**
7,237
-
7,237
**Unrestricted**
**2024**
**£**
5,338
-
5,338
**Notes**
6|**Restricted**
**2025**
**£**
4,500
144,544
149,044
**Restricted**
**2024**
**£**
-
166,731
166,731
**Unrestricted**
**2025**
**£**
90,556
**Unrestricted**
**2024**
**£**
96,976
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
3,825
13,623
17,448|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
11,737
144,544|
|---|---|---|---|
||||156,281|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
5,338
166,731|
||||172,069|
||||**Total**
**2025**
**£**
90,556|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
96,976|
||||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
4,373
19,698|
||||24,071|
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **5 EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
|**EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Training, education and support for people
who have learning difficulties
Training, education and support for people
who have learning difficulties|**Direct**
**costs**
**2025**
**£**
256,814
**Direct**
**costs**
**2024**
**£**
257,516|**Support**
**costs**
**2025**
**£**
21,247
**Support**
**costs**
**2024**
**£**
25,487|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
278,061|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
283,003|
In 2025 expenditure on charitable activities was £278,061 (2024: £283,003) of which £85,425 (2024: £147,555) was expenditure from unrestricted funds and £192,636 (2024: £135,448) was expenditure from restricted funds.
## **6 SUPPORT COSTS**
|**Cost type**
**Notes**
Legal and professional
Sundry support costs
Depreciation
Governance costs
Accountancy
9
Conference and AGM expenditure
**Total**|**2025**
**£**
404
3,140
3,873
5,244
8,586
**21,247**|**2024**
**£**
259
3,125
4,365
4,938
12,800|
|---|---|---|
|||**25,487**|
Support costs have been allocated to charitable activities on the basis of actual use. All wages and salaries costs are considered to relate to activities undertaken directly by the charity and have been classified as such this year.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **7 STAFF COSTS**
|**7**|**STAFF COSTS**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**2025**|**2024**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Staff costs were as follows:|||
||Wages and salaries|182,374|170,663|
||Employer NIC|11,077|9,870|
||Pension costs|6,902|6,420|
|||200,353|186,953|
||The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:|||
|||**2025**|**2024**|
|||**No.**|**No.**|
||Employees|7|7|
||The Charity considers its key management personnel to comprise of one Senior Advisor and one|||
||Finance and Operations Manager (2024: one Senior Advisor and one Finance and Operations|||
||Manager). The total employee benefits including employer pension contributions of the key|||
||management personnel were £78,957 (2024: £55,655). No employee has employee benefits in|||
||excess of £60,000 (2024: none).|||
|**8**|**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**|||
|||**2025**|**2024**|
||This is stated after charging:|**£**|**£**|
||Depreciation of tangible fixed assets|3,873|4,365|
||Pension costs|6,902|6,420|
||Operating lease payments for land and buildings|8,467|6,450|
|**9**|**INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REMUNERATION**|||
|||**2025**|**2024**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Independent examination fees|3,550|3,390|
||Fees payable to the Charity's Independent Examiner in respect of|1,694|1,380|
||other services|||
|||5,244|4,770|
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **10 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
|**Furniture**
**Leasehold**
**fittings and**
**improvements**
**equipment**
**£**
**£**
**COST**
At 1 April 2024
20,610
35,725
Additions
-
5,715
At 31 March 2025
20,610
41,440
**DEPRECIATION**
At 1 April 2024
20,268
31,908
Charge for the year
342
1,454
At 31 March 2025
20,610
33,362
**NET BOOK VALUE**
At 31 March 2025
-
8,078
At 31 March 2024
342
3,817
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**DEBTORS**
Trade debtors
Accrued income
Prepayments
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**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Trade creditors
Accruals
Social security and other taxes
Deferred income
**Deferred Income**
Deferred income at 1 April 2024
Resources deferred during the year
Amounts released from previous years
Deferred income at 31 March 2025|**Computer**
**equipment**
**£**
47,730
-
47,730
41,500
2,077
43,577
4,153
6,230
**2025**
**£**
4,110
7,658
2,936
14,704
**2025**
**£**
-
11,006
3,597
90
14,693
**2025**
**£**
7,955
90
(7,955)
90|**Total**
**£**
104,065
5,715|
|---|---|---|
|||109,780|
|||93,676
3,873|
|||97,549|
||||
|||12,231|
||||
|||10,389|
|||**2024**
**£**
886
7,223
2,624|
|||10,733|
|||**2024**
**£**
2,825
18,729
3,627
7,955|
|||33,136|
|||**2024**
**£**
-
7,955
-|
|||7,955|
Deferred income relates to income in relation to Easy Read training (2024: Easy Read training and grant income) relating to the next financial year.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **13 STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
|**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**2025**
**UNRESTRICTED FUNDS**
General funds
**RESTRICTED FUNDS**
Postcode Places Trust
Lottery Main Grant
NCF - Community Hot-Spot Fund
NCF - Household Support Fund
Love Norfolk Fund
Edward Gostling Foundation
Norwich Consolidated Charities
The National Lottery Awards for All
Souter Charitable Trust
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Norwich City Council CBI Grant
Norfolk and Waveney ICB - 2nd Contract
The MSE Charity
Arnold Clark Community Foundation
Nationwide Community Fund
Geoffrey Watling
R C Snelling Charitable Trust
Total restricted funds
**Total funds 2025**
Bishop of Norwich's Community
Fund
First Revenue Fund
NCF - Community-Based
Hardship Support Fund
Broadland Clinic
Norfolk and Waveney ICB -
Norfolk and Waveney ICB - Ren2
People's Health Trust, Great
Yarmouth|**Brought**
**forward**
**£**
63,490|**Income**
**£**
99,063
-
-
19,311
-
-
5,000
6,000
41,713
2,000
-
10,127
-
20,000
2,000
5,000
2,500
3,500
15,896
3,307
7,190
1,000
-
3,000
1,500
149,044
**248,107**|**Expenditure**
**£**
(102,873)|**Carried**
**forward**
**£**
59,680|
||17,656
3,005
-
2,000
1,000
-
-
-
-
2,049
5,587
3,368
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
36,886
-
-||(17,656)
(3,005)
(19,311)
(2,000)
(1,000)
(5,000)
(6,000)
(41,713)
(2,000)
(2,049)
(15,714)
(3,368)
(9,000)
(2,000)
(2,349)
(2,500)
(3,500)
(15,896)
(3,307)
(7,190)
(1,000)
(22,578)
(3,000)
(1,500)|-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
11,000
-
2,651
-
-
-
-
-
-
14,308
-
-|
||71,551||(192,636)|27,959|
||||||
||**135,041**||**(295,509)**|**87,639**|
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**13**|**STATEMENT OF FUNDS (continued)**
**2024**
**UNRESTRICTED FUNDS**
General funds
**RESTRICTED FUNDS**
Lottery Main Grant
Postcode Places Trust
People's Health Trust, Great Yarmouth
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Bishop of Norwich's Community Fund
Social Services Focus Groups
Norfolk Household Support Fund
Love Norfolk Fund
NCF - REN2
Boshier Hinton
Edward Gostling Foundation
Broadland Clinic
Norwich Consolidated Charities
Screwfix Grant
Nationwide Community Fund
W O Street Charitable Foundation
Total restricted funds
**Total funds 2024**
Paul Bassham Trust Community First
Revenue Fund|**Brought**
**forward**
**£**
131,088|**Income**
**£**
104,028|**Expenditure**
**£**
(171,626)|**Carried**
**forward**
**£**
63,490|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||28,568
3,284
1,921
6,495
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|20,501
21,178
16,671
-
2,000
1,000
1,325
3,000
4,734
4,980
2,000
4,869
15,933
19,138
5,000
40,902
3,500|(46,064)
(6,806)
(18,592)
(6,495)
-
-
(1,325)
(3,000)
(4,734)
(4,980)
(2,000)
(2,820)
(10,346)
(15,770)
(5,000)
(4,016)
(3,500)|3,005
17,656
-
-
2,000
1,000
-
-
-
-
-
2,049
5,587
3,368
-
36,886
-|
|||40,268|166,731|(135,448)|71,551|
|||||||
|||**171,356**|**270,759**|**(307,074)**|**135,041**|
## **RESTRICTED FUNDS DETAIL**
The **Healthy, Happy, Safe** community learning project was funded by **The National Lottery Community Fund** and ended in June 2024
The **Stop our friends dying too young** health screening and education project was funded by **Norwich Consolidated Charities** and ended in June 2024
**Individual health screening support for women** was funded by the **Edward Gostling Foundation** and ended in August 2024
**Improving Opening Doors Training Room** was funded by **The Screwfix Foundation** and ended in December 2024
**Norfolk Community Foundation** funded:
**Household Support Fund Grants** supporting people with rising food and fuel costs which ended in March 2025
**Advocacy Group sessions** via the **Love Norfolk Fund** , the **Bishop of Norwich’s Community Fund**
**Let’s Talk Money** learning and support via the **Community-based Hardship Support Fund Surviving Winter – winter drop-ins via the Community Hot-spot Fund**
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **13 RESTRICTED FUNDS DETAIL (continued)**
Opening Doors **LGBT+ Advocacy Group** was funded **Postcode Places Trust** until March 2025
**Great Yarmouth Advocacy Group** was funded by **People’s Health Trust** until end of March 2025
**Health promotion and screening education** was funded by **Souter Charitable Trust** and ends in March 2025
**Upgrading Training Room equipment** was funded by **Norwich City Council CBI Grant** which ended in March 2025
**Research Training for people with Learning Disabilities** was funded by **Norfolk and Waveney ICB RRDN funding** and ended in March 2025
**Money Matters** support and training was funded by **the MSE Charity** and ended in March 2025
**Hear our Voices training for researchers** was funded by **Norfolk and Waveney Ren2 funding** and ends in April 2025
**Training Groups** are supported by **Baily Thomas Charitable Fund** until end December 2025
**Health Coproduction Work** is funded by **Norfolk and Waveney ICB** and ends in January 2026
**Advocacy and Training Work** in Broadland Clinic is funded by **Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust** and ends in March 2026
**Specialist Individual Advocacy Support** is funded by **The National Lottery Awards for All** programme and ends in March 2026
A **Tenancy Project** is funded by a **Nationwide Community Grant** and ends in December 2025
**Arnold Clark Community Foundation** is in relation to venue and operational costs to support advocacy groups.
**Geoffrey Watling** is in relation to health screening and education.
**R C Snelling Charitable Trust** is in relation to improvements to our Norwich Training Room.
## **UNRESTRICTED FUNDS**
The unrestricted funds are available to be spent for any of the purposes of the charity.
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **14 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**
|Fixed assets
Current assets
Creditors due within one year
Fixed assets
Current assets
Creditors due within one year|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
12,231
62,142
(14,693)
59,680
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
10,389
79,047
(25,946)
63,490|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
-
27,959
-
27,959
**Restricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
-
78,741
(7,190)
71,551|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
12,231
90,101
(14,693)|
|---|---|---|---|
||||87,639|
||||**Total**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
10,389
157,788
(33,136)|
||||135,041|
## **15 PENSION COMMITMENTS**
At the year end the charity operated two defined contribution pension schemes, NEST Pension Scheme and St James's Place Pension Scheme. The assets of the schemes are held separately from those of the charity in independently administered funds. The total pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the charity to the funds and amounted to £6,902 (2024: £6,420). £Nil amounts are outstanding at year end (2024: £Nil).
## **16 OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS**
At 31 March 2025 the total of the Charity's future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases was:
|**Amounts payable for land and buildings:**
Within 1 year
Between 1 and 5 years|**2025**
**£**
8,650
15,498
24,148|**2024**
**£**
8,650
24,148|
|---|---|---|
|||32,798|
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## **OPENING DOORS**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **17 RELATED PARTIES**
In their roles as Trustees, the Trustees give their time and expertise freely without any form of remuneration or other benefit in cash or kind. However as part of their roles as self-advocates, 2 Trustees were paid involvement fees totalling £151 in the year ended 31 March 2025. In the year ended 31 March 2024, 2 Trustees were paid involvement fees totalling £752.
Trustees expenses were incurred during the year for travel totalling £1,396 for 4 trustees (2024: 3 trustees £3,344).
All payments made to trustees as self advocates are in line with the charity’s constitution.
There were no other related party transactions (2024: none).
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