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Registered charity · Liverpool

Open Awards

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England, Northern Ireland
Website
www.openawards.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Open Awards
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2024£3.1m£3.2m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.1m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.9m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR BY:- A) PROMOTING AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION, LEARNING AND TRAINING PARTICULARLY BY THOSE WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY BENEFITED LEAST FROM EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES; B) IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF EDUCATION, LEARNING AND TRAINING PROVISION PRIMARILY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY BENEFITED LEAST FROM EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES; C) IMPROVING ACCESS TO LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITATING PROGRESSION TO FURTHER LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT AND IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE AWARD OF CREDIT AND CREDIT BASED QUALIFICATIONS.

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.

11 trustees on the board

1.7y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11Amateur Sport 1Economic/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.

Education 14Professional services 3Business services 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£2.7m 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.

12.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 17.7 in 2021

45 from 41 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
1113612
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 MAY 2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 07 MAR 2014NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21 MAY 2014 as amended on 08 Jul 2022 as amended on 23 Jun 2022 as amended on 18 Jun 2026
Companies House
Company number 05462874 · Active
Contact on the register
01514942072 · enquiries@openawards.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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