Lucy Roberts, Finance Assistant

Work Base: Dorchester

Direct Dial Phone: 01305 216407

Email: [email protected]

Working Days: Monday - Tuesday and Thursday

Latest

Sherborne Community Focus - Free Community Networking Opportunity, 27th September 2018

Dorset Community Action are leading this event that provides VCSE organisations the opportunity to network, share information and good practice of the great work that you do within the Community.
Government launches new Civil Society Strategy

The Department for Digital, Culture,Media & Sport has now published its highly anticipated Civil Society Strategy, "Building a future that works for everyone".
Save our cashpoints

Which? and the Federation of Small Businesses are coordinating a national campaign to save Britain's free cashpoints at risk from closure by the UK’s largest cashpoint network and are calling on the financial regulator to intervene.
Annual household canvass time - chance to win £1000!

It’s annual canvass time! Confirm your voter details digitally by 14 August, and be entered into a prize draw to win £1000. And if you live in North Dorset, West Dorset or Weymouth & Portland you have more reason than most to be waiting by your letter box.

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.
Phil Burton, Treasurer of Trustees

Phil worked in the high technology industry, having been an RAF and airline pilot. As a Group Managing Director for one company he was responsible for 32,000 employees, and up to 2008 he chaired teams and conferences for UK Trade and Industry and the Office of Science, Technology and Innovation.
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.
Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset, Angus Campbell, Esq (Patron)

Angus was raised in North Dorset and was Commissioned into the Army as one of the first direct-entry Army Air Corps Pilots and served in West Germany, United Nations Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Canada and finally as Second in Command of 16 Flight Army Air Corps in Cyprus before retiring at the end of his Short Service Commission. .
Annie Hobell Administrator, East Team

Annie offers administrative support for the East Dorset Team of DCA.
Sylvia Neale, Community Learning and Resource Centre (CLaRC) caretaker

Sylvia ensures the rooms at CLaRC are set up as required and that the Centre is clean and maintained for users and tenants alike.
Rob Dennis, Community Learning and Resource Centre (CLaRC) caretaker

Rob ensures the rooms at CLaRC are set up as required and that the Centre is clean and maintained for users and tenants alike.

What we do

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?
Dorset’s Best Village Competition 2018
Become a member

Become a member today and you'll receive our latest news and information, as well as many other benefits. All you have to do to join is choose the right membership package for you or your organisation and JOIN TODAY. DCA offers various levels of membership - Standard, Premium and Associate.
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.
Room availability @ CLaRC

Click here to see availability of all the rooms @ CLaRC
Building Better Opportunities (BBO)

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 Big Lottery and European Social Fund.
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

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