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

Helping people to resolve legal, money and other problems, by providing free information and advice and by informing policy makers.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST).

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• SHEFFIELD CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE income £6.2m
• LEWES DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £521k
• Citizens Advice Somerset income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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