REMINISCENCE LEARNING

Registered charity 1105488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve the needs of persons suffering from dementia by the provision of reminiscence therapy and to educate the families of persons suffering from dementia and health care workers in reminscence therapy.

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA BY THE PROVISION OF REMINISCENCE THERAPY.(B) TO EDUCATE THE FAMILIES OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN REMINISCENCE THERAPY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LOCALLY IN SOMERSET, DEVON, CORNWALL AND DORSET.

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: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £21,078 for the year, resulting in a deficit in unrestricted 'Other charitable funds' of £12,444. However, the trustees confirm that total assets are adequate to fulfill obligations and that the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations for the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• 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)

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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

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 04720977

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reminiscence Learning (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• COLES, Suzanne — director, appointed 26/06/2026on trustee list
• SHIPP, Laura Elizabeth Mary — director, appointed 26/06/2026on trustee list
• WITHERS, Brian Charles — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• MAHONEY, Fiona Rosemary — secretary, appointed 02/04/2003

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Charles Withers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Elizabeth Mary Shipp
• Richard Manning
• Suzanne Coles

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP.

• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k
• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• Understanding Dementia income £83k
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• CONTENTED DEMENTIA TRUST income £55k
• Arts for Dementia income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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