DEMENTIA UK

Registered charity 1039404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30267932 · Wikipedia · also known as ADMIRAL NURSES, ADMIRAL NURSING DIRECT, FOR DEMENTIA, FOR DEMENTIA FOR DEMENTIA TRAINING, FOR DEMENTIA PLUS, FOR DEMENTIA TRAINING · also registered in Scotland as SC047429 (OSCR)

Dementia UK provides specialist dementia support for families through our Admiral Nurse service. Admiral Nurses work alongside families, giving them the one-to-one support, expert guidance and practical solutions they need. Dementia UK also runs Admiral Nursing Direct, a free and confidential helpline for anyone with concerns about dementia.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: 2.1 THE PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL NURSES TO SUPPORT, HELP AND CARE FOR THOSE CARING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA (THE SERVICE TO BE KNOWN AS THE ADMIRAL NURSE SERVICE AND THENURSES AS ADMIRAL NURSES).2.2 THE RELIEF AND CARE OF THE FRIENDS, RELATIVES AND CARERS OF THOSE WHO ARE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA.2.3 THE RELIEF, CARE AND TREATMENT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA.2.4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMME OF PRACTICAL RESEARCH AND THE PROMOTION OF STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO:-2.4.1 UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES NATURE AND EFFECTS OF DEMENTIA AND INTO MANAGING CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA,2.4.2 SUPPORTING PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR RELATIVES, FRIENDS OR CARERS, AND THE PUBLICATION OF USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH.2.5 THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT DEMENTIA AND THE INDIRECT EFFECTS ON, AND THE NEEDS OF, PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND CARERS.2.6 TO ENGAGE IN ANY CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES WHATSOEVER WHICH MAY PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF THE RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND CARERS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by £8.9m to £31.4m, resulting in a net surplus for reinvestment of £6.6m. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds £17.3m in general reserves, which represents six months of projected unrestricted expenditure, aligning with their stated policy target of three to six months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dementia UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (185,126 followers) · instagram (84K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Challenge Events Assistant — £28,860 - £30,000 per annum · London (Hybrid) · posted today (seen 09/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR DAVID CROISDALE-APPLEBYchair
• Alistair Burns
• David John Ball
• David Russell
• Dr Anne Elizabeth Shinkwin
• Gavin Anthony Sanderson
• Jackie Kinsey
• Katherine Jane Keir
• Philippa Blane Armitage · trustee of 1 other charity
• Theresa Murphy
• WILLIAM JAMES ROE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK.

• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY income £143.8m
• DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HONITON income £32k
• DEMENTIA CLUB UK income £38k
• DARNALL DEMENTIA TRUST income £161k
• DEMENTIA PREVENTION UK income £25k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.