Lucy Roberts, Finance Assistant

Work Base: Dorchester

Direct Dial Phone: 01305 216407

Email: [email protected]

Working Days: Monday - Tuesday and Thursday

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The Prince’s Countryside Fund – a charity founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to help the British countryside to flourish – has launched their Village Survival Guide, a vibrant manual filled with tips and advice on how to build a strong community.
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NORTH - Easy Steps To Make Social Media Work For You, 4th December 2019

"Today I attended a training session about Social Media for voluntary / community groups. The trainer, who led the session, gave a very informed and thought provoking presentation for the group to digest and consider the best ways of using social media to promote their organisations. Many thanks DCA".

Nicki Payne, Programme Assistant

Nicki is the Programme Assistant and also the marketing and communications lead for 'Inspire Dorset', the Building Better Opportunities programme.
Ash Gordon, Supporting Enterprise Coach

Providing coaching, advice and guidance support for enterprise development and self-employment (as part of 'Inspire Dorset', the Building Better Opportunities programme) across the Dorset County area.
Angie Seymour, Supporting Enterprise Coach

Providing coaching, advice and guidance support for enterprise development and self-employment (as part of 'Inspire Dorset' the Building Better Opportunities programme) across the Dorset County area.
Lyn Jeffrey, Supporting Enterprise Coach

Providing coaching, advice and guidance support for enterprise development and self-employment (as part of 'Inspire Dorset', the Building Better Opportunities programme) across Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset.
Nicky Matthews, Trustee

Nicky was raised in Dorset before studying Institutional Management and moving into sales, corporate business development, personal development training, marketing, and communications. She now owns Media Box Marketing and is co-founder of The Marketing Menu Consultancy a marketing training company. As well as this she has set up and sold a mail order limited company and chaired a local national award winning children’s charity.
Gerry Stoker, Trustee

Gerry Stoker is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia and a Professor at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published over 25 books and over a hundred articles in journal and chapters in edited books.
Derek Howshall, Trustee

Derek followed a 20 year career as an officer in the Royal Signals, serving in a variety of command, technical and staff appointments in the UK and overseas. In 1988 he moved into the Defence Communications Industry and worked on a number of communications equipment and system support contracts for UK MoD and latterly as the UK company project manager for the Austrian and Swiss national defence networks. He retired from the industry in 2010.
Pauline Batstone, Trustee

Pauline is currently County Councillor for Blackmore Vale Division in North Dorset and also a District and Town Councillor within that rural area. She brings 18 years experience as a local councillor and 35 years in the criminal justice system, with offenders, their families and children.
Nick Warren, Vice Chair of Trustees

Nick worked for most of his professional life in the voluntary sector, until his retirement in 2011. For the last twenty years he was Chief Executive of Voluntary Action Sheffield (DCA’s counterpart in Sheffield) and served for 6 years as a Trustee of the National Association for Voluntary & Community Action.
Alan Clevett, Chair

Alan leads a construction consultancy, Clevett Associates, which advise architects and contractors on major and high rise construction, mainly in London, the South East and the Midlands. He has more than 35 years at senior and board level appointments in private and public companies and the manufacturing industries.

About us

Would you like to get on the right track and make your group or project more robust and sustainable? Would you like to make better funding applications? Would you like to develop your networks and build new relationships, promote your services, and share information and news?
Funding opportunities

Finding the right funders for your project or service maximises your chance of obtaining funding. DCA's comprehensive funder information makes it easy to search (at no charge) for current open grant funds.
Dorset’s Best Village Competition 2018
Building Better Opportunities

We have been successful in securing funding from the BIG Lottery’s Building Better Opportunities programme (Supporting Enterprise). The programme will be funded by the European Social Fund and National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.
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Who we help

Dorset Community Action (DCA) is a registered charity that provides business support, training, and consultancy services for the Voluntary, Community, & Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector in Dorset. Whether you are a small community group, or a larger charity we can help you meet the challenges of operating in a dynamic sector, and better meet the needs of the people and communities you support.
Got a great idea?

Have a great community enterprise idea and want to know where to get started? Want something a bit more practical than standard on-line ‘business support’? Don’t know which legal structure you should adopt? DCA has a great track record in supporting groups to become more enterprising, and self-sustaining, by developing the skills and knowledge needed to make organisations successful in the long term. Through our services you will....
DCA Training courses

Do you want to spend less time in learning new topics? Want to take your skills and knowledge to the next level? Then DCA’s flexible training programme is designed for you.
Advertising and marketing with DCA

We can advertise your project, events or jobs and publish your articles on our VSCE networks.
DCA Networking and Events

Want to meet other local groups? Want to find out local VCSE sector news? Want to promote your group to the wider VCSE sector? Then book a place at your next local DCA Networking Event, or come to our next Conference, Working Group or AGM.