THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION UK

Registered charity 1121917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045571 (OSCR)

The Charity partners with local communities to provide new books each month to children under 5 years of age

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Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.8m
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a summary of activities and impact for The Dollywood Foundation UK for the year ended 31 December 2025, highlighting milestones such as delivering one million books in North Lincolnshire and expanding partnerships. It does not contain the financial statements, balance sheet, or income and expenditure accounts required to assess financial health, reserves, or audit status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.8m
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
4

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (98% 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).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.9m£1.8m
31/12/2024£1.5m£1.5m
31/12/2023£1.5m£1.5m
31/12/2022£1.4m£1.4m
31/12/2021£1.3m£1.3m

Common questions

Is THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is a summary of activities and impact for The Dollywood Foundation UK for the year ended 31 December 2025, highlighting milestones such as delivering one million books in North Lincolnshire and expanding partnerships. It does not contain the financial statements, balance sheet, or income and expenditure accounts required to assess financial health, reserves, or audit status.

Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION UK as a grant recipient include MAKE MY DAY BETTER LIMITED, THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
MAKE MY DAY BETTER LIMITEDFY2025£472kEducation UK
MAKE MY DAY BETTER LIMITEDFY2024£336kEducation UK
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUSTFY2023£5k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery28/03/2025£5.0mLaunching the Imagination Library in London

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 THE HONYWOOD AND DOUGLAS CHARITY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION UK£1.9m—0unclear—no doubt
THE HONYWOOD AND DOUGLAS CHARITY FY2024£160k—0unclear—no doubt
DEDDINGTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION STAGE UNIT FY2025£331k—0unclear—no doubt
FULL FACT FY2024£2.9m——within—no doubt
DOLLOND CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£1.6m—0unclear—no doubt
DICKER HOUSE NURSERY GROUP FY2025£154k——above—no doubt

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