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.

Objects

The charities objects are specifically restricted to the following: To promote the preservation of good mental health in particular by enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and, where possible, recover. To promote mental health by working to increase the understanding of mental health and mental health problems by gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness, promote understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination. Nothing in the articles shall authorise the application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland 2008).

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF BOURNEMOUTH, THE BOROUGH OF POOLE, THE COUNTY OF DORSET AND BORDERING AREAS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

• Ben Lawes
• Dr Rosalind Maycock
• Elizabeth Ruth Poyner
• Karen Butcher
• Robert John Carter · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

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

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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 DONCASTER MIND.

• DONCASTER MIND income £825k
• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• Teesside Mind Limited income £5.1m
• MIND IN SOMERSET income £3.4m
• DERBYSHIRE MIND income £757k
• STOCKPORT AND DISTRICT MIND income £189k

Side by side with its peers

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