The Open Hearts Open Minds Foundation

Analysis

The Open Hearts Open Minds Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in January 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Open Hearts Open Minds Foundation reported income of £36k and spending of £38k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £54k to £36k (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Open Hearts Open Minds Foundation sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maurits Mulder Canter Charity (£36k), Copthorne Sports & Community Association (£36k) and Bexley Centre for the Unemployed Limited (£36k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.