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Registered charity · Poole

Dorset Community Foundation

Dorset Community Foundation is a registered charity (number 1122113) based in Poole, governed by 14 trustees. Latest income £2.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 4 more
Where
Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole
Website
www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dorset Community Foundation
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£2.2m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£923k£1.0m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 63%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3. THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY ARE ESTABLISHED ARE:3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF BOURNEMOUTH COUNTY OF DORSET AND BOROUGH OF POOLE AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;3.2 OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT..

Grants received

17 grants · £785,609 total

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Top funders

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Grants given

601 grants · £2,644,188 total

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Top recipients

Most recent

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.

14 trustees on the board

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
4
trustees past 6 years
13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (4)

13
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 14General Charitable Purposes 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Disability 2Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Business services 14Finance 12Professional services 8

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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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£2.6m 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.3 in 2021

5 from 4 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1122113
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/04/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 18/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/09/2013
Companies House
Company number 05768612 · Active
Contact on the register
01202670815 · Philanthropy@dorsetcf.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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