Lyn Jeffrey, Supporting Enterprise Coach

Work Base: Wimborne

Mobile: 07919 167917

Email: [email protected]

Working Hours: Mon - Fri

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Our Dorset Looking Forward

Your local NHS and councils are planning how to improve health and wellbeing in Dorset for the next ten years, and want to hear your views on how best this should be done.
Latest Care Quality Commision newsletter

Monthly update for local public stakeholders interested in health and social care
Re-commissioning of Special Care Adult and Paediatric Dental Services

Feedback from all stakeholders needed for the re-commissioning of Special Care Adult and Paediatric Dentristry Services by NHS England South East. For anyone with an interest in the service please complete the survey - closing date 29th July.
Project Officer Vacancy

This is an exciting opportunity to support the administration and delivery of a community needs led training and drop-in service called the Helping Hands project, being delivered as part of the ‘Big 4 Littlemoor’ Big Local funded Project.

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.
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.
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. .

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?
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.
Room availability @ CLaRC, please ring 01202 847600 for any enquiries

Click here to see availability of all the rooms @ CLaRC, please ring 01202 847600 for any enquiries
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.