DIVERSE ABILITIES PLUS LTD.

Registered charity 282197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORSET SCOPE, DORSET SCOPE LIMITED

Diverse Abilities' mission is to enable children and adults with disabilities to achieve their full potential by providing a lifetime of sustainable support and educational services. We offer the broadest choice of high quality services tailored to individual needs and support people primarily across Dorset and West Hampshire local authority areas, but further afield if required.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELFARE, INTEREST, TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET(OR IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT RE-ORGANISATION IN AN EQUIVALENT AREA) AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS OF SPASTICS (WHICH EXPRESSION IN THESE PRESENTS SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF CEREBRAL PALSY) AND OTHER HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF DORSET AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £2,755,715, representing 2.9 months of forward expenditure, which is in line with the charity's policy of holding between 2 to 3 months in unrestricted undesignated funds. The trustees confirmed there are no issues regarding going concern, and the independent auditors reported no material uncertainties relating to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01540805

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Diverse Abilities (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MORRIS, Andrew John — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• JENKINSON, Annie Margaret Tess — director, appointed 29/09/2025not on trustee list
• TRAPNELL, Sandie — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• GIBSON, Jonathan David — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• LUCAS-ROWE, Lucy Caroline — director, appointed 23/01/2019not on trustee list
• RIDGWAY, Geoffrey Lindsay, Dr — director, appointed 01/12/2015not on trustee list
• DAVIES, Martin Edward — director, appointed 15/12/2014on trustee list
• SMITH, John Allan Raymond, Dr — director, appointed 24/06/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Diverse Abilities Plus Ltd — Registered, 7 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/02/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Diverse Abilities Plus - Supported Living: Not Rated · CQC record
• Shapes Domiciliary Service: Good (11/02/2022) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Smithchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Morris
• Annie Jenkison
• Geoff Ridgway
• Jonathan David Gibson
• Lucy Lucas- Rowe
• MARTIN DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandie Trapnell

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PARITY FOR DISABILITY.

• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH income £629k
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• DIVERSE CITY income £840k
• Diverse UK income £129k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k

Side by side with its peers

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