DEMENTIA MATTERS
Registered charity 1045517 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEMENTIA CARE, DEMENTIA CARE INITIATIVE, DEMENTIA CARE PARTNERSHIP
Dementia Matters provides support services to people with dementia and other degenerative neurological disorders and their carers. The charity provides a home care and support service in the community, independent supported living houses, day centres, residential respite care, training, advice and information and advocacy.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £119,709 for the year ended 31 March 2023, an improvement from the previous year's deficit of £285,145. The trustees confirmed that free reserves were nil at year-end, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £400,000 to £500,000. Despite net current liabilities of £284,005, the trustees and auditors concluded that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.
Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months (approximately £400,000 to £500,000)
“The Trustees considered it would be appropriate to hold the equivalent of three months which would equate to holding approximately £400,000 to £500,000 in free reserves.”
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Insolvency history (Companies House)
The charity’s company has insolvency history on the Companies House record (company status: liquidation).
creditors-voluntary-liquidation — 2025-01-02
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Steve Absolom — Managing Director (source)
- Enrique Aguado — Managing Director (source)
- Rob Allard — Managing Director (source)
- Isabelle Alvernhe — Managing Director (source)
- Jaclyn Andrasek — Director (source)
- Sarah Balsom — Managing Director (source)
- Emma Baylis — Managing Director (source)
- Alexander Bergmann — Managing Director (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- LESLIE, Andrew John — director, appointed 25/08/2024not on trustee list
- WILSON, William — director, appointed 26/09/2023on trustee list
- SCOTT, Jeanette — director, appointed 29/06/2021on trustee list
- LOVENBURY, David — director, appointed 25/11/2019on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £652k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Dementia Matters — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 27/07/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)
Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- David Lovenbury · trustee of 1 other charity
- Douglas Reid
- Dr Andrew Fairbairn
- Jeanette Scott
- Kamaljit Sidhu
- Lionel Roderic Joyce
- William Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DEMENTIA MATTERS financially healthy?
Per its FY2023 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £119,709 for the year ended 31 March 2023, an improvement from the previous year's deficit of £285,145. The trustees confirmed that free reserves were nil at year-end, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £400,000 to £500,000. Despite net current liabilities of £284,005, the trustees and auditors concluded that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.
Who funds DEMENTIA MATTERS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DEMENTIA MATTERS as a grant recipient include THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION, THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW, HERTFORD, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR, TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
Known funders
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