DORSET MENTAL HEALTH FORUM

Registered charity 1169215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DMHF

The Dorset Mental Health Forum is a local peer led charity, which promotes the principles of wellbeing, recovery and coproduction through partnership working and providing recovery orientated partnership and peer led services.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: SUPPORTING THE RECOVERY OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS, BY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES, IN ORDER TO BUILD THE LIVES THEY WISH TO LIVE. CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OR AFFECTED BY MENTAL DISTRESS BY MODELLING THE VALUE OF LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERTISE, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND SHAPING OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL HEALTH, WELLBEING AND RECOVERY THROUGH COPRODUCTION AND RECOVERY EDUCATION.DEVELOPING THE SKILLS, CAPACITY AND OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE, EQUITABLE AND RECIPROCAL COMMUNITIES WHICH ACTIVELY SUPPORT GOOD MENTAL HEALTH.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £37,436 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £1,332,837 to £1,295,401. Trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with financial resilience for the foreseeable future, noting that free reserves are within the range of their stated reserves policy. The charity operates defined contribution pension schemes and has no trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. 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
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Becky Aldridge — Chief Executive (source)
• Sarah Rose — Director of Operations (source)
• Tim Harry — Chair of the Board Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Chorley
• Arthur Merchant
• David Christopher Pain
• Keith Thomas Phalp
• Lesley Jane Haig
• Peter Locke Lovibond
• Sorrelle Jessica Ford
• Stephen Webb
• Timothy Robin Harry Mr

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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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 DORSET MIND.

• DORSET MIND income £1.1m
• DEVON MIND income £1.2m
• DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £220k
• Coventry, Warwickshire & Worcestershire Mind income £11.6m
• HEREFORDSHIRE MIND income £945k
• MENTAL HEALTH NORTHANTS COLLABORATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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