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.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT OF DEMENTIA OR OTHER DEGENERATIVE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, LEARNING, SENSORY OR OTHER PROBLEMS ARISING FROM AGEING, ILLNESS OR DISEASE; (B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY OF CARERS AND EX-CARERS OF SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES; (C) THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY TO ASSIST SUCH PERSONS TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THEIR FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS; (D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST CARERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC REGARDING DEMENTIA AND OTHER ISSUES REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (A) ABOVE

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Glasgow City, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 17/05/2024, 107 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 31/03/2023, 59 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

2 further annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02980817 · Financial health read from its filings

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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Known funders

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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 CONCERN.

• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• DEMENTIA MATTERS - HERE (FORDSHIRE) income £213k
• CONTENTED DEMENTIA TRUST income £55k
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• Arts for Dementia income £329k
• REMINISCENCE LEARNING income £304k

Side by side with its peers

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