CITIZENS ADVICE IN DORSET

Registered charity 1130056 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORSET CITIZENS ADVICE PARTNERSHIP

To promote, support and advance the Citizens Advice Bureau in Dorset for the benefit of all the people in Dorset

Objects

The Charity’s objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in England and Wales.

Area of benefit: 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £41,759 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was met by the General Reserve. The trustees note that the charity holds designated reserves for closure, development, and communications, leaving it in a sound position despite the deficit and the fixed-price nature of its major contract with Dorset Council.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06778548

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.

• LOGAN, Colin Andrew — director, appointed 27/08/2026on trustee list
• SMYLLIE, James Stuart — director, appointed 11/02/2025on trustee list
• BEARE, Stephen Peter — director, appointed 14/08/2024on trustee list
• DAWSON, Stuart Charles — director, appointed 17/10/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Logan
• James Stuart Smyllie
• Stephen Beare
• Stuart Dawson · trustee of 2 other charities

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
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER income £294k
• Citizens Advice Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole income £1.4m
• BRIDPORT AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £292k

Side by side with its peers

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