DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1056479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST DORSET GENERAL HOSPITALS NHS CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

The charitable fund enhances the provision of healthcare services that are provided to the population served by DCH NHS Foundation Trust. This encompasses the provision of medical equipment, furniture and furnishings, improvement of the environment and facilities, enhancement of staff and patient education and the welfare of staff and patients.

Objects

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Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,435,000, driven significantly by legacy income, while total expenditure was £506,000, resulting in a net surplus of £929,000. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £647,000, which are well above its stated policy target of £240,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edwards and Keeping Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Pearson — Head of Charity (source)
• Jodi Hibbard — Head of Fundraising (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Blanchards Bailey — “Choose us as your Charity of the Year just like Blanchards Bailey who have chosen us as their Charity of the Year for 2026 and 2027.” (source page)
• NFU Mutual — “Matt Uren from NFU Mutual Dorset County Hospital Charity is supported by:” (source page)
• Casterbridge Rotary — “Casterbridge Rotary donation to Cariology An donation of £2,369.75 from the Casterbridge…” (source page)
• ASMPT — “ASMPT kindly selected Dorset County Hospital Charity to raise funds for in…” (source page)
• Babcock — “Babcock ASC in Bovington organised a Christmas Initiative in 2025 to support…” (source page)
• Cook — “Cook in Dorchester are donating 30 meals a month for free to…” (source page)
• James Newsam Construction — “James Newsam Construction have set up a regular donation to the Kingfisher…” (source page)
• Portor Dodson — “Portor Dodson Poundbury office solicitors have donated £1,325.00 to the Emergency and…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~15.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity.

• County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £380k
• DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £664k
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS CHARITY income £6.0m
• HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS CHARITY income £821k
• MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS CHARITABLE FUND income £593k
• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.