UK DRI LTD

Registered charity 1179589 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191031

UK DRI's hub will be located at UCL, which was chosen after a thorough search process. Six additional UK DRI centres will be established at University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, King's College London and Imperial College London (x2). Grants will be made to all seven centres.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY I) PROMOTING AND UNDERTAKING RESEARCH INTO NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS (AND ILLNESSES CONTRIBUTING TO SUCH DISORDERS), AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS, THAT GIVE RISE TO THE DEMENTIAS AND RELATED CONDITIONS INCLUDING RESEARCH THAT ELUCIDATES THE NATURE, CAUSE, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND/OR CURE OF THE RANGE OF DISORDERS THAT GIVE RISE TO THE DEMENTIAS AND RELATED CONDITIONS; AND II) DEVELOPING THE OUTPUTS OF SUCH RESEARCH TO PROVIDE INCREASED ACCURACY AND TIMELINESS OF DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTIONS THAT PROVE EFFECTIVE IN TREATING AND IMPROVING THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND WHICH MAY ULTIMATELY PREVENT AND/OR CURE DEMENTIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS (‘THE OBJECT’).

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3.55m for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £5.62m. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern, supported by confirmed funding from its founding partners until 2030 and significant liquid resources exceeding current research commitments. The charity operates on a model where research commitments are only made when funds are available, and it holds no borrowings.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 11045257

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Prof Siddharthan Chandran — Director (source)
• Prof Bart De Strooper — Founding Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• RICKETTS, Piers Harford — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• POLISANO, Robyn Eva — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Nathan — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• SHAFIE, Roudabeh — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• KHAN, Rabia Tahir, Dr — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• KOHLHAAS, Susan Louise — director, appointed 19/07/2022on trustee list
• TURNBULL, Douglas Matthew, Professor Sir — director, appointed 03/06/2020not on trustee list
• RADFORD, Sheena Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 03/06/2020on trustee list
• PISANI, Jo Patra — director, appointed 12/09/2018on trustee list
• LEE, Melanie Georgina, Dr — director, appointed 20/12/2017on trustee list
• RUCKER, William John — director, appointed 10/11/2017on trustee list
• CARMACK, Martin — secretary, appointed 01/08/2026
• CHAMBERS, Elizabeth Edwina — secretary, appointed 01/02/2024

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM JOHN RUCKERchair
• Dr Naseem Amin
• Dr Rabia Tahir Khan
• Jo Patra Pisani
• Nathan Richardson
• Piers Ricketts
• Professor Sheena Elizabeth Radford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robyn Polisano
• Roudabeh Shafie
• Sir Doug Turnbull
• Susan Kohlhaas

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• THE UKI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £159k
• THE MULTI-FAITH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DERBY income £129k
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DURHAM TRUST income £88k

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