DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1122113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BOURNEMOUTH DORSET AND POOLE
THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH INDIVIDUALS, COMPANIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ASSIST IN DELIVERING THEIR CHARITABLE AIMS, AND DEVELOP LONGER-TERM STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY PROGRAMMES. THIS WORK ENABLES THE FOUNDATION TO DISTRIBUTE GRANT FUNDING TO DORSET BASED COMMUNITY GROUPS AND CHARITIES THAT PROVIDE SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES WITHIN BOURNEMOUTH, POOLE AND ACROSS DORSET.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The charity reported a net movement in funds of £146,764 for unrestricted funds, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £165,836. Total funds increased to £6,994,919, driven by significant growth in endowment and restricted funds. The accounts do not disclose a specific reserves policy target or a material uncertainty regarding going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by SMA. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorset Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- UKCF — “Thank you to our supporters… UKCF” (source page)
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- PATERSON, Jennifer Rosalind — director, appointed 12/06/2026on trustee list
- BLAKE, Jonathan Rupert Bowden — director, appointed 12/06/2026on trustee list
- O'CONNOR, Colin Thomas — director, appointed 12/06/2026on trustee list
- HOWARD, Michelle — director, appointed 07/03/2025on trustee list
- LEWIS, Neil — director, appointed 07/03/2025on trustee list
- RICHARDSON, Jenifer Anne — director, appointed 24/03/2023on trustee list
- SEARLE, Martha — director, appointed 24/03/2023on trustee list
- HARDY, Lee Charles — director, appointed 09/12/2022on trustee list
- STALKER, Rebecca Jane — director, appointed 09/12/2022on trustee list
- STANDING, Terry — director, appointed 14/12/2020on trustee list
- FLOOD, Thomas Nicholas — director, appointed 12/12/2020on trustee list
- COULTON, Louise Hazel — director, appointed 18/11/2020on trustee list
- APPLEBY, Deborah — director, appointed 18/10/2020on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£20k
Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (12/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (16/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (05/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (25/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (07/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (07/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a net movement in funds of £146,764 for unrestricted funds, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £165,836. Total funds increased to £6,994,919, driven by significant growth in endowment and restricted funds. The accounts do not disclose a specific reserves policy target or a material uncertainty regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by SMA.
Who funds DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE AMATEURS TRUST, SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, TALBOT VILLAGE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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