THE STARFISH TRUST

Registered charity 800203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHARLES AND MARY DOBSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SPANDEX FOUNDATION

It is the trustees' policy to give priority to appeals from charitable organisations based within a radius of 25 miles of the centre of Bristol in the following spheres:- Assistance to the disabled, with the priority being disabled children;- Assistance to those suffering from illness or disease; and- Medical research and welfare in the above areas.

Objects

FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR PURPOSE OR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £28,411 to £14,528 during the year. The charity is entirely funded by the four trustees, who have confirmed their willingness to provide ongoing financial support for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES DOBSONchair
• Julian Charles Dobson
• MARY DOBSON
• Suzanne DOBSON

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FISHER CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE FISHER CHARITABLE TRUST income £33k
• STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION income £343k
• STARFISH SERVICES LIMITED income £76k
• THE BASSIL SHIPPAM AND ALSFORD TRUST income £164k
• BRISTOL AFTER STROKE income £463k
• THE LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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