FORGET-ME-NOT BUDDIES (TAMESIDE)

Registered charity 1183245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Forget-Me-Not Buddies is a group run by Carers and Volunteers that specifically offers subsidised social activities and interaction for persons living with Dementia and their Carers. It offers support from people who have walked the full path of the Dementia journey, from diagnosis to beyond demise of the diagnosed. The group is based in Tameside and accepts members from surrounding areas.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS LIVING WITH DEMENTIA TOGETHER WITH THEIR CARERS LIVING IN TAMESIDE 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £45,054, which the trustees describe as sufficient to ensure the continuation of the group. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vivian Anne Shiltonchair
• Carrol Ashton
• Joanne McDonald
• Roy William Bate

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

Operates in: Tameside

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Government & lottery funding

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