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Registered charity · Harrogate

Open Country

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £630k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Disability, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
North Yorkshire, City Of York, Leeds City, City Of Wakefield and more
Website
www.opencountry.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Open Country
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£630k£617k
  • 2024£585k£457k
  • 2023£432k£382k
Earlier years
  • 2022£318k£297k
  • 2021£277k£267k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF DISABLED PEOPLE AND THEIR CARERS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY FACILITATING SUCH PERSONS TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.(B) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF DISABLED PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOCUSING ON DISABLED ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE.

Grants received

37 grants · £613,321 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £365,227 (8 grants)
  • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust · £120,000 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £32,779 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £24,212
  • Two Ridings Community Foundation · £15,961 (6 grants)

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 7Disability 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

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 8Professional services 3Education 2

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£630k 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.

8.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.2 in 2021

19 from 14 in 2024
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.
23%
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
1107331
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 JUNE 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 9 DECEMBER 2004.
Companies House
Company number 05155859 · Active
Contact on the register
01423507227 · info@opencountry.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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