Common questions about Open Doors with Brother Andrew's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Open Doors with Brother Andrew a good charity? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew scores 95 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 90% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Open Doors with Brother Andrew a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Open Doors with Brother Andrew as a registered charity (charity number 1125684). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1125684&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Open Doors with Brother Andrew's charity number? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew's charity number is 1125684. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Open Doors with Brother Andrew's charity rating? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew scores 95 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Open Doors with Brother Andrew have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Open Doors with Brother Andrew. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Open Doors with Brother Andrew? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 90% of Open Doors with Brother Andrew's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Open Doors with Brother Andrew's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 10% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 11% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Open Doors with Brother Andrew. Open Doors with Brother Andrew's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Open Doors with Brother Andrew receive? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew reported £18m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Open Doors with Brother Andrew's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Open Doors with Brother Andrew based? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew's registered contact address is in Oxford (OX29 6WG). It tells the regulator it operates in Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Open Doors with Brother Andrew's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Open Doors with Brother Andrew's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Open Doors with Brother Andrew's money come from? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew reported £18m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £18m (100%), other income £34k (0%), investments £22k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Open Doors with Brother Andrew? +
The register records Open Doors with Brother Andrew as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Open Doors with Brother Andrew's trustees paid? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Open Doors with Brother Andrew registered as a charity? +
Open Doors with Brother Andrew was entered on the register on 2 September 2008. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06327802).
How does CharityCompare score Open Doors with Brother Andrew? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Open Doors with Brother Andrew's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Open Doors with Brother Andrew's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.