Registered charity (CIO) · Liverpool
The Opening Doors Project
- 7 trustees
- Income £108k (2025)
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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage and 3 more
- Where
- Liverpool City
- Website
- www.openingdoorsproject.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£108k£100k
- 2024£110k£106k
- 2023£126k£125k
Earlier years
- 2022£96k£102k
- 2021£116k£74k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PURPOSE OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE RICE LANE AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TOADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.
Grants received
24 grants · £237,517 total360Giving 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £85,000 (3 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £72,427 (6 grants)
- John Moores Foundation · £24,000
- Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside · £21,448 (8 grants)
- Sport England · £13,880
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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
- Leslie Hughes Chair since 2019
- Amanda Seddon since 2024
- Charles Robert Hardisty since 2021
- Julie Verdin since 2020
- Karan Connor Miss since 2019
- Karen Afford since 2021
- Michelle Clare Hamilton-Graney since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Leslie Hughes Chair since 2019
- Julie Verdin since 2020
- Karan Connor Miss since 2019
- Michelle Clare Hamilton-Graney since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Amanda Seddon since 2024
- Julie Verdin since 2020
- Karan Connor Miss since 2019
- Karen Afford since 2021
- Michelle Clare Hamilton-Graney since 2020
Portfolio (2)
- Leslie Hughes Chair since 2019
- Charles Robert Hardisty since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1184478
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 18 Jul 2019
- Contact on the register
- 07742443240 · lhnw33054@hotmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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