BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMENTIA FOR SANDWELL

Registered charity 1133484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Befriending service for people with dementiaWeekly clubs for people with dementiaSupport service for family carers of people with dementiaDementia-awareness training for Social Services/Healthcare professionals and Care Home staff

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA LIVING IN AREA OF BENEFIT AND THEIR CARERS, TO ENABLE THEM TO REMAIN LIVING IN THEIR OWN HOMES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:1. THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION FOR CARERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC; AND2 THE PROVISION OF RELEVANT SUPPORT SERVICES AND TRAINING FOR SUFFERERS OF DEMENTIA, THEIR CARERS AND THE MEDICAL AND OTHER STAFF WHO HELP THEM. THE AREA OF BENEFIT IS THE WEST MIDLANDS, PARTICULARLY THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS, PARTICULARLY THE BOROUGH OF SANDWEL

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

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £197,584, up from £169,657 the previous year, resulting in a net incoming resource surplus of £27,927. The charity reported total incoming resources of £255,512 against resources expended of £227,585, indicating a positive financial position for the year ended 30 June 2025.

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.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06814962 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• SHILTON, Kay Rachel — director, appointed 12/12/2014on trustee list
• PIPER, Robert Francis — director, appointed 12/04/2011on trustee list
• GAUNT, Peter Ronald — director, appointed 28/01/2010on trustee list
• SILBER, Rachel Sarah Louise — director, appointed 10/02/2009on trustee list
• SILVESTER, Victor Paul — director, appointed 10/02/2009on trustee list
• SILVESTER, Victor Paul, Mr. — secretary, appointed 29/09/2020

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAY RACHEL SHILTONchair
• PETER GAUNT
• RACHEL SARAH LOUISE SILBER
• ROBERT FRANCIS PIPER
• VICTOR PAUL SILVESTER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP.

• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k
• Understanding Dementia income £83k
• WENDOVER DEMENTIA SUPPORT income £37k
• ACTION ON DEMENTIA SUNDERLAND income £63k
• Dementia Studio CIO income £68k
• DARNALL DEMENTIA TRUST income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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