Citizens Advice in Dorset

Analysis

Citizens Advice in Dorset is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in June 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06778548). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Citizens Advice in Dorset reported income of £996k and spending of £1.0m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £640k to £996k (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Citizens Advice in Dorset sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moundfield Charities Limited (£995k), Womens Work (Derbyshire) Limited (£996k) and Imece Women's Centre (£995k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £41k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.