DORCHESTER FAMILY CHURCH

Registered charity 1163899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DFC

WE PROVIDE CHRISTIAN FAITH BASED SERVICES TO ANYONE WHO WISHES TO ATTEND, USUALLY ON A SUNDAY MORNING. WE PROVIDE YOUTH GROUP AND CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES AT VARIOUS TIMES AND LOCATIONS, OPEN TO ALL WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE. WE PROVIDE ACTIVITY OPPORTUNITIES SUCH AS CAMPING AND WALKING FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES. WE OPERATE A SAFEGUARDING POLICY IN RELATION TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

Objects

1.TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.2.TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF DORCHESTER AND ELSEWHERE IN DORSET INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN POVERTY OR IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR EDUCATION.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased by £38,609 to reach £279,962 at the end of the reporting period. The trustees note that venue capacity is nearing its limit, which may influence future financial balances regarding potential property purchases or multiple meeting approaches.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN WHITINGchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DEREK KEELING
• RUTH SIMONS

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELL STREET UNITED CHURCH.

• WELL STREET UNITED CHURCH income £103k
• The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Christopher, Hanwell income £261k
• HAPPY CHURCH - THE CHRISTIAN ACTION FAITH MINISTRIES income £491k
• WEST LEIGH BAPTIST CHURCH income £926k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST.WILFRID, GRAPPENHALL income £211k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOCKING FARM AND BEAUMONT LEYS income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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