DORCHESTER ARTS

Registered charity 1015546 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORCHESTER ARTS CENTRE

Arts Centre

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small loss of £3,220 for the year ended 31 March 2025, contrasting with a surplus in the previous year, due to increased general costs and tightening margins. Despite this, unrestricted reserves stood at £94,232, which the trustees consider comfortably above the Charity Commission’s minimum recommended level and sufficient to meet their policy target of maintaining three months of running costs. The trustees remain confident in the charity's ability to continue operating as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02752793
• Trading subsidiary: DORCHESTER ARTS TRADING LIMITED Companies House 09620457

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorchester Arts (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• EXALL, Denise Lucette — director, appointed 12/08/2025on trustee list
• FRERE, Toby Sam Theodore — director, appointed 20/08/2024on trustee list
• WAKEMAN, Amanda Louise — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• VEALE, Simon — director, appointed 20/02/2024on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Helen — director, appointed 08/08/2023on trustee list
• WILLDRIDGE, Michael David — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• CONSTABLE, Alexandra Emily — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• EIGELAND, Anabel, Mrs. — director, appointed 27/02/2020not on trustee list
• TATTERSALL, Mark — secretary, appointed 16/04/2012

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Vealechair
• Alexandra Emily Constable
• Amanda Louise Wakeman
• Annabel Eigeland
• Denise Lucette Exall
• Helen Hutchinson
• Michael David Willdridge
• Toby Sam Frere

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).