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Registered charity · Dorset

Community Action Network

4(1) To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Dorset and the surrounding areas (hereinafter called "the area of benefit") and, in particular, the advancement of education, the...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where
Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole
Website
www.can100.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Community Action Network
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£3.0m
  • 2024£958k£1.4m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.1m£693k
  • 2021£553k£493k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 60% · Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4(1) To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Dorset and the surrounding areas (hereinafter called "the area of benefit") and, in particular, the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.4(2) To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes and to that end to bring together representatives of the voluntary organisations and statutory authorities within the area of benefit.

Grants received

6 grants · £681,303 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £11,0312022-03-24
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £6,0002021-06-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002020-11-27
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £187,4752019-06-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £279,5292009-01-22
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.

7 trustees on the board

7.7y median 6.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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

Business services 8Other services 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.8 in 2021

30 from 13 in 2021
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.
75%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1081381
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/06/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/06/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2013 as amended on 22 Aug 2019 as amended on 29 Nov 2019 as amended on 04 Nov 2020
Companies House
Company number 04024662 · Active
Contact on the register
01202466130 · hello@can100.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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