Campaign to Protect Rural England - Dorset Branch

Analysis

Campaign to Protect Rural England - Dorset Branch is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in October 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Campaign to Protect Rural England - Dorset Branch reported income of £64k and spending of £70k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £93k to £64k (-31%), an average of -8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Campaign to Protect Rural England - Dorset Branch sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chester Civic Trust (£64k), Lincolnshire Churches Trust (£64k) and Manhood Wildlife and Heritage (£64k).

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.