DEMENTIA ADVENTURE TRUST

Registered charity 1163163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEMENTIA ADVENTURE

THE DEMENTIA ADVENTURE TRUST (DAT) WAS REGISTERED AS A CHARITY IN 2013 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, AND THEIR CARERS, BY:PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS, OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES OR OTHER SUPPORT AND,PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVITIES WHICH ASSIST IN FURTHERING THE OBJECTS AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, AND THEIR CARERS, BY:1. PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS, OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND OTHER SUPPORT2. PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVITIES WHICH ASSIST IN FURTHERING THE OBJECTS, AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £104,190 for the 13-month period, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Despite this, unrestricted free reserves stood at £549,799, which the trustees state represents six months of budgeted costs, meeting their reserves policy target. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House CE004343

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Right at Home — “Read how our COTY partnership with Right at Home makes a lasting difference.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Jean Marshallchair
• Alastair Paul Henry Shanks
• Anneliese Holah
• Dr Charles Edward Berrisford
• Paul John Jefferies
• Richard Harvey
• Sarah Joanne Webster

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONTENTED DEMENTIA TRUST.

• CONTENTED DEMENTIA TRUST income £55k
• DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• DARNALL DEMENTIA TRUST income £161k
• ADVENTURE THERAPY income £186k
• TRENT DEMENTIA SERVICES DEVELOPMENT CENTRE income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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