CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND - DORSET BRANCH

Registered charity 211974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNCIL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF RURAL ENGLAND (DORSET BRANCH), DORSET BRANCH CPRE, THE COUNCIL FOR THE PROTECTION OF RURAL ENGLAND (COUNTY OF DORSET BRANCH)

The objects of the Branch shall be seek to improve, protect and preserve for the benefit of the public, the countryside and the market towns and rural villages of the County of Dorset.

Objects

TO IMPROVE, PROTECT AND PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE COUNTRY TOWNS AND VILLGES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF CONSTITUTION)

Area of benefit: 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £767,029, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of covering 2.5 years of the average 5-year budgeted deficit. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £6,387 for the year, supported by investment gains, while total expenditure exceeded total income.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dorset CPRE (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Michael Hugheschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Theodore Terence Rottenburg
• Andrew Procter
• Dr Alwyn Guy Dickinson
• Gerald Martin Rigler
• Robert John Bowmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rupert Hardy
• SANDRA DOBNEY BROWN
• SIR CHRISTOPHER CHARLES COTTON COVILLE KCB · 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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