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Registered charity (CIO) · Dorchester

Dorset Mental Health Forum

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole
Website
www.dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.2m£941k
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: SUPPORTING THE RECOVERY OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS, BY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES, IN ORDER TO BUILD THE LIVES THEY WISH TO LIVE. CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OR AFFECTED BY MENTAL DISTRESS BY MODELLING THE VALUE OF LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERTISE, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND SHAPING OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL HEALTH, WELLBEING AND RECOVERY THROUGH COPRODUCTION AND RECOVERY EDUCATION.DEVELOPING THE SKILLS, CAPACITY AND OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE, EQUITABLE AND RECIPROCAL COMMUNITIES WHICH ACTIVELY SUPPORT GOOD MENTAL HEALTH.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.3y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Economic/community Development/employment 9Education/training 9

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

Health and social care 3Education 1Other services 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£1.5m 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.

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

68 from 72 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
1169215
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 16 Sep 2016 as amended on 05 Dec 2021
Contact on the register
01305 257172 · admin@dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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