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Open Doors Training and Development Trust

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1146725DunstableHealth and saving lives
Income£37k2025-10-01
Spending£30ksame year
Spent / received90%5-year average
Size in its cause47th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2012Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Open Doors Training and Development Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dunstable. It was registered in March 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides other finance, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Open Doors Training and Development Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £30k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £30k to £37k (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2025, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Open Doors Training and Development Trust 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 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Joshua Hayday Helping Hand Trust (£37k), Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests Fund (£37k) and Walezi-Caregivers Kenya (£37k).

Income and spending

£0£9,863£20k£30k£39k2021 Income: £30,0002021 Spending: £28,73020212022 Income: £39,4502022 Spending: £35,74520222023 Income: £26,0002023 Spending: £25,26020232024 Income: £21,5502024 Spending: £19,12920242025 Income: £36,9702025 Spending: £30,0342025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

the prevention or relief of poverty (or financial hardship) within the UK and in Africa the relief of unemployment for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment within the UK and in Africa and the establishment of social enterprises the advancement of education in the UK or Africa in such ways as the charity trustees think fit,

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Joshua Hayday Helping Hand TrustHaywards Heath£37k
Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests FundNottingham£37k
Walezi-Caregivers KenyaNorwich£37k
Samaritans of WiganWigan£37k