SHAFTESBURY AND DISTRICT CARERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1129439 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education and training for people who are or who have experience of mental illness and support for their carers.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £7,660 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds decreasing from £30,999 to £23,339. The charity operates a defined contribution pension plan and has no disclosed pension deficit. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06765575

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.

• FISHER, Julie — director, appointed 03/08/2026on trustee list
• HUMPHRIES, Christine Phyllis — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Jonathon — director, appointed 16/06/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Phyllis Humphries
• Jonathon Smith
• Julie Fisher

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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