DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1140321 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We work to help people with sight loss lead full, independent, healthy and socially active lives. We deliver practical services directly into the community to make these are as accessible as possible to all service users and while the sight loss condition itself sadly cannot be cured, the charity works to stop that sight loss from causing or leading to other physical or mental health problems.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS AND THE NEEDS OF THE VISUALLY AND/OR HEARING IMPAIRED IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS2 TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF IN NEED OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE A SIGHT AND/OR HEARING LOSS IN THE 0COUNTY OF DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY OF DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £32,459, following a significant surplus of £171,031 in the previous year. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves have increased to £769,057, which is in line with their policy of holding six months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Morris Lane. 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorset Blind Association (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £215k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 44.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/09/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jamie Perry
• Jessica Mary Webster
• Linda Ann Charlton
• MARIA LUISA GRUNDMANN
• Tessa Lynne Bastard

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• SOUTHAMPTON SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £205k
• EASTBOURNE BLIND SOCIETY income £295k
• LINCOLN & LINDSEY BLIND SOCIETY income £423k
• THE MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £862k
• ESSEX BLIND CHARITY income £215k
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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