Open House Trust Ltd.

Public benefits

OHT makes grants of money to organisations working worldwide in furtherance of its purposes. For example, OHT has supported Tanzania Christian Farm Development Trust which aims to educate people in agricultural methods and advance the Christian religion by working with local churches in Tanzania. OHT has also supported Kindfund which runs primary

and nursery schools in rural Kenya and makes bore holes and installs water pumps in rural areas of Kenya. In Northern Ireland OHT has supported the Stauros Foundation which helps people with addition and seeks to support them and their families and Crown Jesus Ministries which evangelises young people and children and works to support churches in their work and ministry. The benefit flowing from these purposes are: 1. The improvement of spiritual and emotional welfare of people across the world. 2. The provision of education to people worldwide who may not otherwise be able to access education providing enhanced knowledge and education for these people and consequently in their communities. 3. The improvement of physical welfare and health through sanitation projects (mentioned in the example above) and also through enhancement of medical knowledge and education worldwide. These benefits are demonstrated through feedback and reports given by the organisations and individuals to whom grants are made. The trustees seek details of activities and projects being carried out by those organisations and individuals to ensure that funds will be used effectively and to the benefit of the public before any funds are released. The purposes outlined do not lead to any harm. The safeguard put in place by the trustees (namely to seek details of activities and projects being carried on by organisations and individuals who it is proposed a grant be made to) seeks to mitigate against any possibility of harm arising. The beneficiaries of the purpose are worldwide. For example OHT supports projects in Northern Ireland, Kenya, Tanzania, India and the Middle East. No private benefit is foreseen. It is not intended that any grant will be made to the trustees. There is a potential of a private benefit arising if a grant is made to an organisation based in Northern Ireland that subsequently works in a church or school attended by a member of the trustee’s family. The potential of such benefit arising seems remote and any such benefit would be incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all members of the public.

What your organisation does

Makes donations to various organisations as previously described.