FRIENDS OF DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL

Registered charity 1139970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve patients and former patients of Dorset County Hospital who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped, infirm or in need of financial assistance and generally to support the charitable work of the said hospital.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE DORCHESTER HOSPITALS WHO RE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GENERALLY, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID HOSPITALS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £11,562 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £51,225 and total expenditure of £39,663. Unrestricted funds stood at £155,167, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover at least six months of trading and running costs. The accounts were examined by Spirare Ltd., who confirmed no material matters required attention regarding compliance or accounting records.

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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 04/11/2022, 4 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of Dorset County Hospital (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Doris Purnellchair
• Annette-Marie Kent
• Jane Elizabeth Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Margaret Holt
• Keith Edward Russell
• Paul James Kent · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Patricia Merritt

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND.

• DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £220k
• DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION income £666k
• THE FRIENDS OF DARLINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL income £66k
• THE DORSET HEALTH TRUST LIMITED income £179k
• THE FRIENDS OF QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITAL - ROEHAMPTON income £54k
• FRIENDS OF THE FRIARAGE income £449k

Side by side with its peers

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