## OPEN DOOR, WARMINSTER
Annual Report 2024
Abstract Chairmans’ statement, finance statement and details
Deborah Gogarty Secretary Open Door, Warminster (charity reg
no. 1207590) warminsteropendoor@gmail.com
## **Open Door, Warminster Annual Report 2024**
## **Introduction**
Open Door, Warminster was officially established as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) (reg no 1207590) on 20 March 2024. The formal part of this report, as required by the charity commission, focuses solely on the months the charity was officially in operation.
This part of the report looks at the whole year; referencing the achievements of the first three months when the group was operating as an unincorporated community association as well as the time spent as a CIO
## **Chair’s statement**
It is essential before all else to thank all the volunteers who have worked tirelessly in the past year; Trustees and volunteers at all the Cafes, both current and retired for their enthusiasm and energy in making our service to the community so successful. Without them we could not have provided the warm welcome each guest receives.
Of course, to be able to offer the service that we do, I must also thank the funders and donors like the Warminster Mayor (pictured)., who have enabled us to hire the comfort of The Athenaeum each week and provide the tea/coffee and biscuits. Big thanks also to Warminster Philharmonic orchestra for their wonderful contribution. And to Warminster
Town Council for its support of the new prostate cancer group.
Wiltshire Community Foundation, the Warminster Area Board, Macmillan and the Fudge Trust have supported us as well since our inception. Also, generous local businesses and organisations.
Not to forget the very welcome cake baked and brought in by one of our guests!
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Our Thursday Café consistently welcomes thirty to forty guests each week, enjoying friendship and camaraderie of each other. Professionals from a variety of organisations pop in to share their knowledge and encourage the take up of available grants.
In April members of the Cancer Support Café attended the Warminster Lions PSA Testing session and following on the Prostate Cancer Support Group was launched in July.
Rachel (pictured with Kerry left and Marion right), partner of Kerry, undertook a sponsored skydive to raise funds, which were kindly match-funded by Centre Parcs.
This new group is an important asset to the chat café repertoire, encouraging greater awareness
about this growing yet preventable cancer.
We have welcomed professionals from Salisbury Hospital, the Royal United Hospital and the Macmillan CAB Welfare service and been attending the Bereavement Network meetings at Dorothy House.
Both Friday morning Cafes have welcomed guests and offered support allowing them to share concerns and struggles; although conversations can very often be light-hearted giving the opportunity for laughter.
Working in and for the community, both in the town and villages, we will seek to increase and improve our services in the coming year, welcoming all who need a listening ear and a comforting cuppa.
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## **Treasurers Report**
This report covers the 12 months from 01 January to 31 December 2024.
Income was £15,528 up from £12, 403 in the previous year. This comprised grants from funders, donations from charities and public donations.
Our expenditure was £12, 262 up on £8,904 from the previous year. This increase was down to heavier refreshments costs, an increase in rent as we are operating more cafes and a drive on improving communications.
We finished the year with a net surplus of £7,969 which represents approximately 75% of 2025’s operating costs meaning that we will have time to focus on our strategy for funding in 2026 without concern for 2025.
## Statement for 2024
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Open Door Warminster
Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2024
EXPENDITURE 2024 2023 INCOME 2024 2023
Rent £7,205.00 £5,295.00 Grant Macmillan Cancer £2,898.00 £0.00
Refreshments £589.59 £449.09 GRANT Warminster Lions £0.00 £250.00
Appliances/Eqpt £0.00 £654.93 GRANT Warminster Area Board £0.00 £0.00
Marketing PR £3,491.45 £1,928.85 Donations £2,558.00 £2,263.57
Insurance £218.27 £210.16 Coffee morning fundraiser £0.00 £0.00
Volunteer materials/mgmt £298.23 £166.52 Wiltshire Community Foundation Grant £4,977.00 £5,500.00
Heating £0.00 £78.00 National Lottery Grant £0.00 £330.00
Postage £0.00 £4.10 Warminster Town Council Grant £1,920.00 £2,500.00
Phone contract £60.00 £93.95 Warminster Fudge Trust £0.00 £1,560.00
Cleaning materials £0.00 £23.40 Warminster Mayor's Charity of the year £1,000.00 £0.00
Donation incorrectly processed as debit 31/12 £400.00 Warminster Philharmonic donation £1,550.00 £0.00
Raffle at WPHO event £375.00 £0.00
Warminster in Need donation £250.00 £0.00
£12,262.54 £8,904.00 £15,528.00 £12,403.57
Closing balances Opening balances
Lloyds Bank Treasurer account £7,969.88 £4,704.42 Lloyds Bank Treasurer account £4,704.42 £1,204.85
Cash in hand 0 0 Cash in hand 0 0
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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 20 March 2024 To 31 December 2024**
**Charity name: Open Door, Warminster**
**Charity registration number: 1207590**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote social inclusion for the**
**public benefit by preventing people in**
**the Warminster and surrounding**
**villages area from becoming socially**
**excluded, relieving the needs of those**
**people who are socially excluded and**
**assisting them to integrate into society.**
**For the purpose of this clause ‘socially**
**excluded’ means being excluded from**
**society, or parts of society, because of**
**one or more of the following factors:**
**mental ill-health in particular, but not**
**exclusively, mental ill-health caused by**
**loneliness, grief/bereavement or cancer.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The operation of drop-in support groups**
**known as chat cafes. Providing peer**
**support through enhanced social**
**connection and signposting to**
**additional resources.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustee confirm that to the best of**
**their knowledge they have complied**
**with their duty to have due regard to the**
**commission's public benefit guidance**
**when exercising any powers or duties.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The charity is run entirely by volunteers.**
**We conservatively estimate the annual**
**contribution in hours as c1800 or 258**
**working days which at real living wage**
**costs equals c£38,000.**|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**In 2024 the charity ran 98 separate chat**
**cafes. The Thursday social group**
**attracts the largest audience of 40+**
**attendees of diverse ages and**
**backgrounds.**
**The cancer and bereavement groups**
**provide local support to those affected**
**by life changing situations. Before the**
**Chat Cafes were in operation, people**
**had to travel to receive support.**
**In June 2024 the charity established the**
**newest group which supports men**
**affected by prostate cancer.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|||
|---|---|---|---|
||Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**2024 was an exceptional year for**
**fundraising with grants and donations**
**bringing in £15, 528. The charity finished**
**the year with a surplus which ensured**
**2025 activities could continue without**
**risk.**|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity finished the year with a**
**surplus of £7,968.88. This was a result**
**of successful fundraising and grant**
**achievements throughout the year. The**
**charity has established good relations**
**with local stakeholders such as the**
**Town Council which actively support**
**the charity’s aims. The surplus provides**
**the charity with 75% of its budget for**
**2025.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity has £2,400 designated as**
**reserves, which represents three**
**months’ fixed operating costs. It is held**
**in an instant access current account. It**
**provides a buffer that will allow it to**
**continue to provide services should:**
•
**A source of income, e.g. a grant, is**
**not renewed.**
•
**The need to fund short-term deficits**
**in a cash budget, e.g. money may**
**need to be spent before a funding**
**grant is received.**
**The Board reviews the level of reserves**
**needed to ensure that they are adequate**
**to fulfil our continuing obligations on an**
**annual basis.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£2,400**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The charity is wholly reliant on grant**
**funders and donors. It does not charge**
**for its services as it does not wish**
**money to be a barrier for anyone**
**needing the benefits it provides.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A.**|
||Para 1.46|**Last year felt more pressurised in terms**
**of the availability of suitable grants with**
**grant funders being more cautious**|
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|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity||**about the terms of their grants. The**
**charity reviews its cash flow each**
**month and establishes an annual**
**strategic fundraising plan.**|
|---|---|---|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 20 March 2024**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are elected annually at the**
**AGM and, from the Board, volunteers for**
**Chair, Treasurer and Secretary are**
**agreed. New Trustees are co-opted onto**
**the Board as required during the year.**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Open Door Warminster|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1207590|
|Charity’s principal address|14 Manor Road Upton Lovell Warminster Wiltshire BA12 0JW|
|||
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Marion Barton|Chair|20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|Deborah Gogarty|Secretary/Treasurer|20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|Simon James||20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|Michael Tansey||20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|Sue Chinnock||20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|John Alpin||20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|Marion Curtis||20/03 – 31/12/2024|Trustee Board|
|||||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**
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Chat Cafés at The Athenaeum Centre 18-20 Hi h Street BA12 9AE g
## **1[st] and 3[rd] Friday each month**
## **10:00-12:00**
## **2[nd] and 4[th]**
## **Monday each month**
## **19:00-20:30**
## Every Thursday
## 10:00-12:00
**2[nd] and 4[th] Friday each month**
## **10:00-12:00**
No charge no need to book. Just drop in and enjoy a chat and a cuppa on us!
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**Open Door Warminster**
**1207590**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
3/20/2024
12/31/2024
## **For the period from**
**To**
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**
Grant from Warminster Mayor Charity
**1,000**
**1,920**
**1,550**
Raffle income
**375**
Skydive byR Evans
**400**
Donation from Longleat Estate
**500**
public donations
**1,364**
**-**
**7,109**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 7,109**
**A3 Payments**
Marketingand PR
**3,097**
Refreshments
**514**
Phone
**50**
Hire of room at Athenaeum
**5,830**
Volunteer management
**298**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total 9,789**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 9,789**
**Net of receipts/(payments) - 2,680**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**Cash funds this year end - 2,680**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
Grant from Warminster Town Council for
prostategroup
Donation from Warminster Philharmonic
Orchestra
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,000**
**1,920**
**1,550**
**375**
**400**
**500**
**1,364**
**-**
**7,109**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,109**
**3,097**
**514**
**50**
**5,830**
**298**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**- 2,680**
**-**
**-**
**- 2,680**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**|**1,000**|**-**|
|||**-**|**1,920**|**-**|
|||**-**|**1,550**|**-**|
|||**-**|**375**|**-**|
|||**-**|**400**|**-**|
|||**-**|**500**|**-**|
|||**-**|**1,364**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**7,109**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**7,109**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**3,097**|**-**|
|||**-**|**514**|**-**|
|||**-**|**50**|**-**|
|||**-**|**5,830**|**-**|
|||**-**|**298**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**9,789**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**9,789**|**-**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**|**- 2,680**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**- 2,680**|**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Cash in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**2,680**
**-**
**-**
**2,680**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Date of approval