DORSET MIND

Registered charity 1108168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOURNEMOUTH POOLE & DISTRICT MIND

Dorset Mind supports people with mental health problems in Dorset.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,128,643 against total expenditure of £954,978, resulting in a surplus. The charity held total unrestricted reserves of £135,152, which is below the stated reserves policy target of £268,000 determined by the Risk, Finance, and Quality Sub-Committee.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorset Mind (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 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 (56% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Hendrick Albertschair
• Ben Lawes
• Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis
• Dr Rosalind Maycock
• Jonathan Wootten
• Karen Butcher
• Samuel Crompton

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

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 MIND IN BEXLEY AND EAST KENT LTD.

• MIND IN BEXLEY AND EAST KENT LTD income £6.8m
• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• WILTSHIRE MIND income £188k
• MIND IN SOMERSET income £3.4m
• Coventry, Warwickshire & Worcestershire Mind income £11.6m
• DORSET MENTAL HEALTH FORUM income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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