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Registered charity · Dorset

Dorchester Arts

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £559k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Dorset
Website
www.dorchesterarts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dorchester Arts
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£559k£546k
  • 2024£458k£472k
  • 2023£412k£460k
Earlier years
  • 2022£339k£238k
  • 2021£205k£133k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA BALLET MUSIC SINGING LITERATURE SCULPTURE PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET 2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES TO OTHER BODIES IN THE AREA OF OPERATION OF THE COMPANY FOR THE HOLDING OF EXHIBITIONS MEETINGS LECTURES CLASSES SEMINARS AND TRAINING COURSES WHICH FURTHER PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS.

Grants received

6 grants · £69,873 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Dorset Community Foundation £9,9642021-05-07
  • Youth Music £25,7172020-03-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9992019-01-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,4302009-11-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002006-03-15
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 8Hospitality 1Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£559k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

6
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1015546
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/10/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/2011NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 29/10/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/11/2012
Companies House
Company number 02752793 · Active
Contact on the register
01305266926 · enquiries@dorchesterarts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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