DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IN DORSET (DEED)

Registered charity 1072827 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEED

DEED is a Global Education Centre and a member of the Consortium of Development Education Centres (CoDEC). DEED aims to develop a better understanding of global issues and cultural diversity to help create a more just, fair and sustainable world. We work in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) and Dorset with local organisations including schools and community groups.

Objects

DEED IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN WORLD PROBLEMS OF HUNGER, DISEASE, POVERTY AND IGNORANCE AND THE SOLUTIONS THEREOF AND THE ECONOMIC AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHOSE ECONOMIES ARE BETTER ADVANCED AND DEVELOPED HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION".NOTHING IN THIS MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEES INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BOURNEMOUTH, POOLE AND OTHER COUNTY DISTRICTS

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £18,164 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward increasing to £53,739. The trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves of £30,992 are sufficient to cover expected unrestricted expenditure for the next twelve months, maintaining a position above their stated policy target of three months' expenditure.

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.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03646475

Funders the charity credits

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

• Wimborne Town of Culture 2026 — “funded by Wimborne Town of Culture 2026 as a Culture Catalyst Project.” (source page)

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.

• GWINN, Ian Alan, Dr — director, appointed 26/09/2023on trustee list
• LISTER, Roger Andrew — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• BONE, Rebecca Jane — director, appointed 10/01/2023on trustee list
• STIRLING, Pauline — director, appointed 10/01/2023on trustee list
• THATCHER, Jenny — director, appointed 24/02/2021on trustee list
• COLEMAN, Ann Marie — director, appointed 01/02/2014on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Edward James — director, appointed 08/10/1998not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Marie Colemanchair
• Dr Ian Alan Gwinn
• Jenny Thatcher
• Rebecca Bone
• Roger Lister
• TED TAYLOR

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Poole

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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