Community Action Network

Registered charity 1081381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOURNEMOUTH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, BOURNEMOUTH CVS, Bournemouth and Poole CVS, CAN

We provide professional and practical support to organisations working within the voluntary and community sector in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset. We want to see these communities healthy, diverse, vibrant and flourishing. Our mission is to empower the voluntary sector, enable volunteering and involve communities. We believe that together, we CAN make a difference.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £1,999,190 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which the trustees attribute to the utilization of a £4.3 million grant received in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, free available reserves of £652,853 exceed the stated policy target of three months' general funds expenditure, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04024662

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.

• STANLEY, Lorraine Frances — director, appointed 04/03/2025not on trustee list
• OGWUAZOR, Rupert — director, appointed 30/08/2023on trustee list
• SHARP, Pauline Dawn — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• CLIFTON, Deborah Julie — director, appointed 08/11/2012on trustee list
• BROAD, Paul Martin, Reverend — director, appointed 09/11/2007on trustee list
• LEYLAND, Amy Charlotte — secretary, appointed 01/03/2023

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 ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEBORAH JULIE CLIFTON
• Laura Elizabeth Jump
• Pauline Dawn Sharp
• Philip Tarrant
• Rev PAUL MARTIN BROAD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rupert Ogwuazor
• Shailesh Agarwal

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND.

• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• COMMUNITY ACTION NORFOLK income £559k
• DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION income £666k
• BRADFORD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK income £179k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY ACTION HAMPSHIRE income £936k

Side by side with its peers

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