# DORSET ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 277303
- **Other names:** SOUTH DORSET ORGANISTS' ASSOCIATION
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** May 10, 1979
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=277303


## Contact

- **Address:** 11 HOLLOW OAK ROAD, WAREHAM
- **Postcode:** BH20 5AH
- **Phone:** 01929553375
- **Website:** www.iao.org.uk/dorset



## Activities

**Objects:** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE STUDY OF THE ART OF MUSIC WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ORGAN AND LITURGICAL MUSIC.

**Activities:** The Association promotes the music of the pipe organ by lectures, demonstrations of instruments and their construction, demonstrations of music for organ and for voices, open competitions and by help to organists and choir trainers to improve their standard of performance. Membership is open without restriction to any member of the public.

**Area of benefit:** DORSET




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Bournemouth
- Dorset
- Poole



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £910 | £338 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £1006 | £1065 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £842 | £729 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £1646 | £1497 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £366 | £295 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **John Leslie Porter** (Chair) — appointed March 15, 2025
- Alan John Turner — appointed March 15, 2025
- Beryl Mary Skinner — appointed March 15, 2019
- Colin Burgess — appointed March 15, 2025
- DR NIGEL RODNEY WEBB
- John Radford — appointed March 25, 2017
- MALCOLM ROSS THORNING — appointed Sept. 24, 2012
- Neil Cuthill — appointed March 15, 2025