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Open Road Visions

The Charity?s object (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to: (a) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the practice of holistic or other forms of medicine or therapy or care, in particular for the relief or rehabilitation of persons...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £4.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Essex, Medway
Website
www.openroad.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Open Road Visions
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.6m£4.5m
  • 2024£4.4m£4.3m
  • 2023£3.9m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£2.9m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 66% · Government grants 26%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Charity?s object (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to: (a) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the practice of holistic or other forms of medicine or therapy or care, in particular for the relief or rehabilitation of persons suffering from alcohol, drug or other physical or psychological addiction, illness, dependency, or the effects thereof, or others who have suffered from the effects of such physical or psychological addiction or illness within their household and/or family or who work with organisations which deal with such effects; (b) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the provision of education and training to persons suffering from alcohol drug or other psychological addiction or illness or others who have suffered from the effects of such physical or psychological addiction or illness within their household and/or family or who work for organisations which deal with such effects; (c) The Protection and Preservation of Health by the practice of holistic or other forms of medicine or therapy and in particular for the relief or rehabilitation of persons suffering from the effects of bereavement or requiring counselling or other therapeutic input in relation to psychological or emotional illnesses or conditions including vulnerable persons who are resident in woman?s refuges, prisoners, offenders on licence or probation, or minors suffering from such conditions or who require mentoring, development, education or support services whilst engaged with the criminal justice system to enable them to lead purposeful, stable and crime free lives for the benefit of the public; and (d) To relieve the needs of homeless and vulnerable people in and around Essex by the provision of homeless prevention support services.

Grants received

46 grants · £1,649,928 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

6.7y median 5y
average tenure
30y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Education/training 4Other Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 19Other services 5Construction 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.8 in 2021

135 from 107 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
92%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1019915
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 01/04/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/08/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/03/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18/10/2010 as amended on 22 Mar 2021
Companies House
Company number 02806113 · Active
Contact on the register
01206 369782 · info@openroad.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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