Registered charity · Dorset

The Friends of Dolphin

11 trustees
Income £112k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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: Disability
Where: Dorset, Poole
Website: www.thefriendsofdolphin.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Friends of Dolphin
Registered: 1982

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£112k£24k
2024£36k£25k
2023£21k£19k

Earlier years

2022£3k£14k
2021£20k£16k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE DISABLED IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A BOAT AND OTHER ANCILLARY TRANSPORT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.

Grants received

1 grant · £25,000 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.

Top funders

Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

Garfield Weston Foundation £25,0002025-05-07

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.7y median 2y

average tenure

13y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Anthony Elgar since 2016
Elizabeth Crew since 2013

8.6y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

Elizabeth Crew since 2013

company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 10Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£112k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 284692
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30TH MARCH 1982
Companies House: Company number 01625795 · Active
Contact on the register: 01202657446 · thefriendsofdolphin@gmail.com
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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