Registered charity · Colchester
Open Door Colchester
- 5 trustees
- Income £56k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Brenda June ReadeTrustee · since 2016
- Elizabeth IkuesanTrustee · since 2025
- Peter HurstellTrustee · since 2016
- Tola Abbey SodeTrustee · since 2025
- William Butcher LLB, LLMTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- Colchester Baptist Church · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.opendoorcolchester.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2004
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£56k£58k
- 2023£59k£54k
- 2022£53k£47k
Earlier years
- 2021£33k£44k
- 2020£45k£33k
Charitable objects
1) ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; AND2) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, RESOURCES, AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE IN NEED IN COLCHESTER.
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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.
5 trustees on the board
- Brenda June Reade since 2016
- Elizabeth Ikuesan since 2025
- Peter Hurstell since 2016
- Tola Abbey Sode since 2025
- William Butcher LLB, LLM
Trustees past 6 years
- Brenda June Reade since 2016
- Peter Hurstell since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Brenda June Reade since 2016
- Elizabeth Ikuesan since 2025
- Peter Hurstell since 2016
- Tola Abbey Sode since 2025
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1101675
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION DATED 25 NOVEMBER 2003AS AMENDED ON 19 JUL 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01206970727 · opendoorcolchester@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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