CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED

Registered charity 1089018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE DORCHESTER, SHERBORNE AND DISTRICTS AND NORTH DORSET LIMITED, DORCHESTER AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, DORCHESTER, SHERBORNE AND DISTRICTS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

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Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: DORCHESTER, SHERBORNE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £48,792 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,366,596 and total expenditure of £1,317,804. The trustees consider the level of unrestricted reserves, representing just under four months of operating costs, to be appropriate to ensure continuity of services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Scott Vevers Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Balfe
• Dr Emmanuella Onyinye Ejime
• Dr Kunal Dineshchandra KANSARA
• Ivana Ercegovic
• Kenneth Hunter
• Simon Sean Griffith
• Stephen Beare
• Stephen Payne
• Stuart Dawson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tabitha Baker Revuelta
• Tracy McGregor

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD.

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN DORSET income £996k
• Citizens Advice Somerset income £2.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £230k

Side by side with its peers

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