DORSET BLIND ASSOCIATION

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  +25.4%

  £607,228 → £761,313

• Cash

  +17.3%

  £115,207 → £135,166

• Net assets

  +25.9%

  £660,480 → £831,511

• Employees

  +28%

  25 → 32

  highest in 5 filed years

• Profit before tax

  +426.9%

  £32,459 → £171,031

• Wages

  +24.7%

  £497,273 → £620,142

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Morris Lane

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Significant events

• “Our charity shops performed extremely well again during the year. Our existing shops are all now very well established and provided 60% of our total income. At the very end of the financial year we opened three further shops, at Blandford, Sturminster Newton and Shaftesbury respectively, which extended the coverage of our shops chain into mid and north Dorset.”
• “Our annual income exceeded £1m for the first time in our charity's history - another sign of how Dorset Blind Association has continued to grow in recent years - and after expenditure and all other adjustments we ended the year with a surplus of over £171,000”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.