DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK

Registered charity 1154143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045615 (OSCR)

The charity provides grants to organisations for research into the treatment and cure of dementia and related diseases.

Objects

TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CARE OF ALL FORMS OF DEMENTIA, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINDINGS OF RESEARCH INTO THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA AND CARE OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PRIMARY OBJECT, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £162,398 for the year ended 31 October 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £522,292. Per the trustees' report, these reserves represent approximately four months of anticipated expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of six months. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has a wholly owned trading subsidiary, Dementia Research Trading Limited, which incurred a loss in its first year of trading.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Gee
• Jeremy Rogers
• WENDY LAYBOURN

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Understanding Dementia.

• Understanding Dementia income £83k
• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• RACE AGAINST DEMENTIA income £3.5m
• CONTENTED DEMENTIA TRUST income £55k
• DEMENTIA CLUB UK income £38k
• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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