Registered charity · Dorset
The Othona Community
- 10 trustees
- Income £134k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Mark Alexander James RingroseChair · since 2024
- Christina WilsonTrustee · since 2022
- Christopher Martin JonesTrustee · since 2022
- Daniel Charles DutfieldTrustee · since 2021
- Jane Daphne PearseTrustee · since 2023
- Maria FreemanTrustee · since 2025
- Marie MartinTrustee · since 2025
- Michael David HuntTrustee · since 2021
- Paul Geoffrey SimonTrustee · since 2026
- Stephen William BarnesTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.othonawestdorset.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1979
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£134k£141k
- 2024£136k£113k
- 2023£87k£100k
Earlier years
- 2022£66k£73k
- 2021£72k£71k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(I) THE TRAINING OF THEOLOGICAL AND OTHER STUDENTS AND LAYMEN AND WOMEN IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTRES WITH AN OECUMENICAL PURPOSE. (II) THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY CENTRES FOR LAYMEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOLUNTARY WORK STUDY WORSHIP AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO FURTHER SERVICE FOR THE WORLD WIDE CHURCH AND THE INTERGRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW WITH THE WHOLE LIFE OF MAN.
Grants received
4 grants · £25,300 total360Giving 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
- Essex Community Foundation · £25,300 (4 grants)
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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.
10 trustees on the board
- Mark Alexander James Ringrose Chair since 2024
- Christina Wilson since 2022
- Christopher Martin Jones since 2022
- Daniel Charles Dutfield since 2021
- Jane Daphne Pearse since 2023
- Maria Freeman since 2025
- Marie Martin since 2025
- Michael David Hunt since 2021
- Paul Geoffrey Simon since 2026
- Stephen William Barnes since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Stephen William Barnes since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Michael David Hunt since 2021
Portfolio (9)
- Mark Alexander James Ringrose Chair since 2024
- Christina Wilson since 2022
- Christopher Martin Jones since 2022
- Daniel Charles Dutfield since 2021
- Jane Daphne Pearse since 2023
- Maria Freeman since 2025
- Marie Martin since 2025
- Paul Geoffrey Simon since 2026
- Stephen William Barnes since 2020
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 277843
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 12TH SEPTEMBER 1978 AND 27 MAY 1994 AS AMENDED ON 10 SEPTEMBER 2007.AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 02 JUL 2025
- Contact on the register
- 01308897130 · communitysecretary@othona.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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