DEMENTIA FORWARD

Registered charity 1148225 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Dementia Forward exists to provide specialist support, advice and information to anyone affected by dementia. Support is given from pre diagnosis to end of life through a range of services including home visits by our specialist dementia support team as well as running community wellbeing services. Our services have been designed to give North Yorkshire folk the right support at the right time.

Objects

To relieve the needs and promote and protect the good health and wellbeing of people living with Dementia, their carers and families resident in North Yorkshire, York and the nearby surrounding areas, through the provision of such support and activities as the Trustees deem fit

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds amounted to £807,554, with free reserves of £295,228. The trustees report that these free reserves were below the stated policy target of three to six months of general operating expenditure, although they note that subsequent to the year end, reserves came back in line with the policy. The charity generated a net income surplus of £41,317 for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher David Lees
• DAVID GEORGE WELLS
• Dr JOHN CROMPTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• HILARY PAXTON
• Jeremy Michael Trigg
• Neil Anthony Cutler
• PET FOWLER WATTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebekah Haymes

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

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 FRIENDLY KEIGHLEY income £199k
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k
• DEMENTIA MATTERS - HERE (FORDSHIRE) income £213k
• ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICES income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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