The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

The Open-AIR Mission

Registered charity 215409 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Hungary, Spain, Scotland

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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.

9.2y median 10y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 8Religious Activities 8Education/training 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Other services 6Education 1Professional services 1

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£629k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.5 in 2020

20 from 12 in 2020
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.oamission.com
Emailoamission@btinternet.com
Phone01582841141
AddressThe Open-Air Mission, PO Box 678, ABINGDON, Oxfordshire, OX14 9NA

Finances

£628,728 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£785,040£528,555
2021£909,129£566,220
2022£756,511£650,516
2023£550,898£772,154
2024£628,728£832,341

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesReligious Activities

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Services

Charitable objects

TO APPOINT AND SUPPORT EVANGELISTS TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER LANDS, UPON THE FOLLOWING DOCTRINAL BASIS:I) THE DIVINE INSPIRATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AND THEIR SUPREME AUTHORITY IN FAITH AND PRACTICE , IN ALL MATTERS BEING THE INFALLIBLE AND INERRANT WORD OF GOD;II) THE DEITY OF THE FATHER OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT;III) THE INCARNATION, DEATH, RESURRECTION, ASCENSION AND SECOND ADVENT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE ALL SUFFICIENCY OF HIS ATONEMENT FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD, AND THE FREE JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN HIM ALONE OF EVERY SINNER WHO BELIEVES IN AND RECEIVES HIM AS THE PERSONAL SAVIOUR.IV) THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN'S FALLEN NATURE AND THE NECESSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK AS THE ONLY MEANS OF REGENERATION AND SANCTIFICATION OF THE BELIEVER;V) THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY BOTH OF THE JUST AND THE UNJUST THE ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS OF THOSE IN CHRIST AND THE ETERNAL CONDEMNATION OF THOSE WHO REJECT HIM..

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 OCTOBER 1937. AS AMENDED 19TH NOVEMBER 2003 AND 17TH MARCH 2004 as amended on 20 Sep 2023

Trustees (8)

8trustees
58median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Open-AIR Mission · 00334296 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 02/12/1937

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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