DORSET COUNTY ARTS AND CRAFTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 306252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORSET ARTS & CRAFTS ASSOCIATION

Annual Exhibition of traditional and modern arts and crafts

Objects

(1) TO REVIVE AND PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS BY HOLDING EVENTS, INCLUDING AN ANNUAL EXHIBITION AT WHICH EXHIBITS WILL BE JUDGED BY COMPETENT PERSONS. (2) TO ENCOURAGE, INCLUDING THROUGH THE AWARDING OF GRANTS, THE EDUCATION OF RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN ARTS, CRAFTS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES, FOR THEIR PLEASURE AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. (3) TO PROMOTE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FACILITIES FOR TEACHING ARTS, CRAFTS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES NOW CARRIED ON IN DORSET.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF DORSET

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £51,542 in 2022 to £55,475 in 2025, with the General Fund rising from £48,517 to £52,176. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated a surplus for the year ended 2025 of £1,443, although the budget for 2026 anticipates a loss of reserves. Reserves are held in COIF accounts, with £14,571 in deposit funds and £18,908 in investment funds as of 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JENNIFER ELIZABETH GURDENchair
• Gillian Elaine Hedger
• Janette Underdown
• John Forsdyke
• Pauline Forsdyke

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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