DOLPHIN SOCIETY

Registered charity 203142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide pendant alarms(telecare) for disadvantaged elderly or disabled people living alone and at risk of falls. We also give grants for essential small works to aid independence and ensure security.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN RESIDENT IN BRISTOL AND ITS ADJOINING LOCAL AUTHORITY AREAS AND WHO ARE IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS TO MAINTAIN A HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE AND INDEPENDENCE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE APPROPRIATE, INCLUDING ASSISTING AND SUPPORTING THEM TO LIVE IN THEIR OWN HOMES. TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE WAYS AS SHALL BE PROPOSED BY THE PRESIDENT FOR THE TIME BEING IN ANY APPEAL MADE ON BEHALF OF THE SOCIETY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £267,041 following significant legacy income, while the trustees maintain a designated reserve policy target of approximately £70,000. The trustees report a surplus for the year and confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern without material uncertainty.

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 5 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 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
• 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

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 — Dolphin Society (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Carol Trembath
• DAVID JEREMY POPLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frances Michelle Mimi Avery
• JOHN ANTHONY HOLLINGDALE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Francois Alun Davies
• Michael Beesley

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• DAVID JEREMY POPLE — trustee here and at THE POPLE CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOLENT DOLPHIN.

• THE SOLENT DOLPHIN income £65k
• RUNTON DOLPHIN TRUST income £87k
• THE PENDERELS TRUST LIMITED income £9.5m
• THE DROMINTEE TRUST income £717k
• DOLPHIN SCHOOL TRUST income £2.2m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS income £95k

Side by side with its peers

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