Registered charity (CIO) · Wimborne
Dorset Climate Action Network
- 10 trustees
- Income £66k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Giles Francis Tanfield WattsChair · since 2025
- Belinda BawdenTrustee · since 2025
- Colin TracyTrustee · since 2024
- Helen Lucy SumblerTrustee · since 2023
- Jenifer Anne RichardsonTrustee · since 2025
- John Ashley WestTrustee · since 2025
- Jonathon James GrifffinTrustee · since 2026
- Samuel Herbert WilberforceTrustee · since 2023
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- Tracee Lorraine CosseyTrustee · since 2024
- Victoria ElcoateTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 4 other charities:
- Planet Purbeck · 1 shared trustee
- Friends of the West BAY Discovery Centre · 1 shared trustee
- Dorset Community Foundation · 1 shared trustee
- Surfers Against Sewage · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Dorset
- Website
- www.dorsetcan.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2023
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£66k£52k
- 2024£54k£46k
Charitable objects
A) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY WORKING WITH OTHERS TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND PROMOTE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND RESTORATION OF NATURE.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN DORSET.
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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.
10 trustees on the board
- Giles Francis Tanfield Watts Chair since 2025
- Belinda Bawden since 2025
- Colin Tracy since 2024
- Helen Lucy Sumbler since 2023
- Jenifer Anne Richardson since 2025
- John Ashley West since 2025
- Jonathon James Grifffin since 2026
- Samuel Herbert Wilberforce since 2023
- Tracee Lorraine Cossey since 2024
- Victoria Elcoate since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Giles Francis Tanfield Watts Chair since 2025
- Belinda Bawden since 2025
- Colin Tracy since 2024
- Jonathon James Grifffin since 2026
- Samuel Herbert Wilberforce since 2023
- Tracee Lorraine Cossey since 2024
- Victoria Elcoate since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Helen Lucy Sumbler since 2023
- Jenifer Anne Richardson since 2025
- John Ashley West since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1204328
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 11 Aug 2023
- Contact on the register
- 07982242453 · dorsetcan@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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