DORCHESTER OPPORTUNITY PRESCHOOL GROUP LTD

Registered charity 1147030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORCHESTER OPPORTUNITY GROUP

Provides a learning environment for pre school children with special requirements.Works in partnership with parents and professionals Supports parents and carers and provides opportunities for trainingSupports tranisition to the child's next settingLiaises and networks with other preschool settings

Objects

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS AND OTHER AGENCIES, THE OBJECTS OF THE GROUP ARE TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND ADDITIONAL NEEDS WHO ARE PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY AGE AND LIVE IN WEST AND SOUTH DORSET.

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: 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 £1,548 for the year, reducing its unrestricted funds to £55,886. The trustees explicitly note that the future of the group is uncertain as they are seeking alternative sources of funding to ensure continuation after the next academic year.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 26/02/2024, 26 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07775635

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.

• CLIFFORD, Frances Christina — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• CRAWFORD, Alison Margaret — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• PRYCE, Jane — director, appointed 04/12/2018on trustee list
• JAMES, Teresa Catherine — director, appointed 06/04/2012not on trustee list
• JAMES, Teresa Catherine — secretary, appointed 15/09/2011

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TESS JAMESchair
• Alison Margaret Crawford
• Frances Christina Clifford
• JANE PRYCE · 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FELIXSTOWE OPPORTUNITY GROUP.

• FELIXSTOWE OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £27k
• DORCHESTER PRE-SCHOOL income £91k
• BURGHCLERE PRE-SCHOOL AND TODDLER GROUP income £157k
• DORCHESTER COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £195k
• DUCKLINGS PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING CENTRE income £371k
• COPYTHORNE PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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