VOLUNTEER CENTRE DORSET

Registered charity 1113758 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORCHESTER VOLUNTEER BUREAU

Volunteer Centre Dorset commits to promote, support and develop volunteering for all in Dorset.

Objects

TO BENEFIT LOCAL COMMUNITIES BY UNDERTAKING VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION SOCIAL SERVICES AND OTHER AREAS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITY AND ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO DO SO AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY THEREOF):-1) INFORMING GUIDING AND SUPPORTING PERSONS WILLING TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY SERVICE;2) ADVISING AND GUIDING ORGANISATIONS USING VOLUNTEERS; AND3) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A CENTRE FOR THE CONDUCT OF ITS ACTIVITIES AND AS A MEETING PLACE IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ACTIVITIES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE DORSET

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £57,103 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £422,054 against total expenditure of £479,157. However, the trustees report that the organisation is in a financially secure position for the coming year due to key contracts won from Dorset Council, and unrestricted reserves remain stable at £176,207.

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phillip Ashley Cooperchair
• ALEC BAILEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Burgen
• Helen Johnstone Enright
• Jean Lang
• Pauline Lindsay Chart
• Peter William Lockley
• Tracey Dennis-Andrews

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 CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED.

• CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED income £1.4m
• DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION income £666k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE KENSINGTON & CHELSEA income £630k
• DORSET MIND income £1.1m
• DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £908k
• DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £220k

Side by side with its peers

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