DORSET PARENT CARER COUNCIL

Registered charity 1191487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Parent participation and coproduction forum for families with disabled children and young people with additional needs in Dorset (age 0-25 years)

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PARENT CARERS OF CHILDREN AGE 0 — 25 YEARS WHO ARE DISABLED OR HAVE ADDITIONAL NEEDS IN DORSET THROUGH THE PROVISION OF (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) EVENTS WHERE PARENTS AND CARERS WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE VIEWS AND GAIN INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with total funds of £138,551, having generated a net surplus of £1,849. The trustees confirm there are sufficient funds in reserves to ensure continuity for twelve months after the year end and that there are no funds in deficit.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Mellorchair
• Annmarie Carter
• Dawn Julie Tattersall
• Julie Parham
• Nicola Smith

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).