BEESTON DEMENTIA FRIENDS

Registered charity 1169865 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Beeston Memory Café

Run Memory Cafe sessions: All Thursdays of each month between 1.45-3.45pm. Cafe session programmes provide the opportunity for guests and their supporters to engage in a wide range of arts, cultural and social activities, often led by professional facilitators. Offer information and support on dementia and signposting to specialist organisations/services. Run Dementia Friends awareness sessions.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS LIVING WITH DEMENTIA TOGETHER WITH THEIR CARERS LIVING IN BEESTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, TRAINING, INFORMATION AND ADVICE, SOCIAL EVENTS AND OUTINGS AT REGULAR SESSIONS, AND TO HAVE A RESOURCE OF ACTIVITIES WHICH PROVIDE STIMULATION FOR THOSE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA TO HELP IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THEM AND THEIR CARERS

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: Broxtowe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a healthy financial position, holding in excess of one year’s operational expenses in reserve. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern. The charity relies on income from grants and general donations, which are not guaranteed, but retains sufficient funds to ensure continuation of activities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beeston Memory Cafe (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).

• Nottinghamshire County Council — “Supported by Nottinghamshire County Council and Broxtowe Borough Council” (source page)
• Broxtowe Borough Council — “Supported by Nottinghamshire County Council and Broxtowe Borough Council” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “We have received a large grant from the National Lottery to support our on-going overheads for 18 months. Our project was made possible tha…” (source page)
• Alex Ferry Foundation — “With the money kindly donated by the Alex Ferry Foundation we will be able to continue to support people who work or have worked in manufact…” (source page)
• J N Derbyshire Trust — “A grant from JN Derbyshire Trust means we can offer regular physical activities and physical therapies to support the wellbeing of all our g…” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alanna Higgins
• CHRISTINE PRICKARD
• Colin Firbank
• Derek Alan Burnett BEM
• Joan Kenyon
• John Allsebrook
• Margaret Haskey
• Paul Walsh
• SUSAN STACK
• Sonia Burnett

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

Operates in: Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DAVENTRY AND DISTRICT MEMORY CAFE.

• DAVENTRY AND DISTRICT MEMORY CAFE income £14k
• THE PALMER CENTRE income £118k
• BUDDIES DEMENTIA CAFE income £42k
• DOWNHAM DEMENTIA income £56k
• EASTWOOD MEMORY CAFE income £35k
• KENNINGTON MEMORY CLUB income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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