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Registered charity · Liverpool

Open EYE Limited

Open EYE Limited is a registered charity (number 1056743) based in Liverpool, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £763k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Open Eye Gallery (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £763k (2025)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Liverpool City
Website
www.openeye.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Open EYE Limited
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£763k£834k
  • 2024£621k£604k
  • 2023£650k£714k
Earlier years
  • 2022£548k£550k
  • 2021£504k£381k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS IN THE ART OF LENS MEDIA AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPRECIATION. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE APPRECIATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE ART OF THE LENS MEDIA AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.

Grants received

7 grants · £874,840 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.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £493,518 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £229,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £152,322 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,8002025-01-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £246,7592021-12-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £70,8222021-12-13
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £210,0002018-12-17
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £246,7592017-06-08
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

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Arts and leisure 11Education 2Tech and media 1

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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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£763k latest income
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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.0 in 2021

13 from 10 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1056743
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 MARCH 1975 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 3 FEBRUARY 1994 AND 27 JUNE 1996 CERTIFICATE UPON CHANGE OF NAME 4 MAY 1982
Companies House
Company number 01204519 · Active
Contact on the register
01512366768 · info@openeye.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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