Opening Your Heart to Bhutan

Analysis

Opening Your Heart to Bhutan is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in February 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides other finance, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Opening Your Heart to Bhutan reported income of £167k and spending of £126k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £49k to £167k (+237%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Opening Your Heart to Bhutan sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Normanton Community Church (£166k), Wat Sriratanaram (£168k) and Free Methodist Church, Morecambe and Heysham (£165k).