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Registered charity · Poole

Diverse Abilities Plus LTD.

Diverse Abilities Plus LTD. is a registered charity (number 282197) based in Poole, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by John Smith since 2013. Latest income £10m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Dorset Scope (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £10m (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
Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole
Website
www.diverseabilities.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Diverse Abilities Plus LTD
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£11m
  • 2024£9.6m£9.3m
  • 2023£8.3m£8.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.0m£7.8m
  • 2021£7.5m£6.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 90% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELFARE, INTEREST, TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET(OR IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT RE-ORGANISATION IN AN EQUIVALENT AREA) AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS OF SPASTICS (WHICH EXPRESSION IN THESE PRESENTS SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF CEREBRAL PALSY) AND OTHER HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

Grants received

13 grants · £691,746 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

8 trustees on the board

6.4y median 5.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 8Disability 8Education/training 8

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

Education 7Property 4Construction 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£10.4m 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.

9.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 12.0 in 2021

411 from 402 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.
93%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
282197
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23RD JANUARY 1981 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 28 FEBRUARY 2001. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20 JULY 2009.
Companies House
Company number 01540805 · Active
Contact on the register
01202718266 · info@diverseabilities.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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