Dorset Healthcare Charitable Fund

Analysis

Dorset Healthcare Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending January 2025, Dorset Healthcare Charitable Fund reported income of £220k and spending of £140k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income fell from £234k to £220k (-6.2%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2023, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Dorset Healthcare Charitable Fund sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blind and Sight Impaired Society (Basis) (£220k), Lady Sumayya Humanitarian Aid Foundation Limited (£220k) and Turner Syndrome Support Society (£220k).