DOVECOT AND PRINCESS DRIVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1064490 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DRIVE · filing overdue (register status)

Education/TrainingProvide social activities for the elderlyEncourage local people to give ideas for local communityEncourage other groups to use the premisesProvide services for community benefit to disadvantaged groups

Objects

THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA AS DEFINED IN CLAUSE 2 (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, SEX, RACE, POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO PROTECT HEALTH AND RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS OR SICKNESS AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS

Area of benefit: SEE CLAUSE 2

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£210k
Latest spending
£214k
Registered
1997

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Charity Commission inquiry

The Charity Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the Dovecot and Princess Drive Community Association due to concerns regarding misconduct, mismanagement, and the inability to confirm current trustees. As a protective measure, the regulator froze the charity's bank accounts while the inquiry examines governance, financial losses, and compliance issues.
The provided text is a press release announcing the opening of an inquiry, not the final regulatory case report. Therefore, specific verified findings with exact quotes from a concluded investigation are not present in the source text. The following points reflect the regulator's stated concerns and scope as described in the announcement.
“The regulator’s initial investigations have been unable to confirm who, if anyone, is currently acting as a trustee of the charity.”
This quote reflects the financial concern cited as a protective measure.
“Information obtained by the Commission through its regulatory compliance work suggests the charity’s property may be at risk.”
This quote details the protective action taken by the regulator.
“As a protective measure, the regulator has also frozen the charity’s bank accounts due to financial and governance concerns.”
Per the Commission’s published report. Summary is automated; the official report is authoritative.

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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 12
  • Government income: £29,000 — contracts £13,000 (1), grants £16,000 (3); 22% of the £134,629 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025——
31/03/2024£210k£214k
31/03/2023£135k£160k
31/03/2022£145k£151k
30/09/2020£64k£12k

Common questions

Who funds DOVECOT AND PRINCESS DRIVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DOVECOT AND PRINCESS DRIVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£2k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUSTFY2024£1kRound Three - Food Poverty

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund28/03/2023£10kCommunity coronation celebration
The National Lottery Community Fund08/04/2022£9kQueen's Jubilee Party
The National Lottery Community Fund03/03/2022£33kCreative Coast: Arts and Music for the Jubilee in Liverpool
UK government17/07/2020£8kVSCE CMC Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund07/05/2020£10kCovid Emergency Response
The National Lottery Community Fund17/02/2016£10kMoving Yew Tree/Stockbridge Out of Poverty
The National Lottery Community Fund24/09/2009£10kDovecot Social Learning
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/02/2005£793"Dovecot And Princess Drive Community Association In Liverpool Have Been Awarded A Grant To Enable Them To Hold A Special 60th Anniversary Of"
The National Lottery Community Fund28/01/2005£5kA point in Time