The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

Citizens Advice Central Dorset Limited

Registered charity 1089018 Registered since 2001

Operates: Dorset

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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.

11 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Tech and media 11Business services 2Education 1

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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

51 from 45 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Phone01305262525
AddressCitizens Advice Central Dorset, 1 Acland Road, DORCHESTER, Dorset, DT1 1JW

Finances

£1,366,596 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,042,994£979,262
2022£987,714£1,044,009
2023£1,118,106£1,118,023
2024£1,165,037£1,108,842
2025£1,366,596£1,317,804

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/training

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28 MAR 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 APR 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 AUG 2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 FEB 2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 MAR 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAR 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 MAR 2019 as amended on 12 Mar 2019 as amended on 04 Aug 2025

Trustees (11)

11trustees
64median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Citizens Advice Central Dorset Limited · 04188591 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 28/03/2001

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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