DEMENTIA SINGING EXPERIENCE, SUSSEX

Registered charity 1184951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEMENTIA SUPPORT EAST SUSSEX, DEMENTIA SUPPORT EAST SUSSEX (DSES), DSES

We take structured and interactive singing, activity and craft sessions into community day care centres, Age UK or council run and dedicated care homes supporting those living with dementia and offering respite opportunities for carers. Our sessions are unique in the fact that we approach every individual and make sure that everyone feels relaxed and at ease.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF DSES IS TO RELIEVE PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARERS BY THE PROVISION OF SINGING AND ACTIVITY GROUPS IN DEMENTIA CARE HOMES IN EAST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £30,682.60 in donations and incurred £29,084.65 in expenditure, resulting in a net surplus of £1,597.95 for the year. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £41,049.47 at the end of the financial year. The trustees have approved the report, indicating standard governance procedures were followed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dementia Singing Experience, Sussex (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Brian Reginald Hustwaytechair
• Alena Eksteen
• Graham Slack
• Susan Ellen Wren
• Vivienne Rose Tate

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• OUR DEMENTIA CHOIR income £204k
• MINDSONG income £336k
• Dementia Studio CIO income £68k
• ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICES income £3.2m
• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k
• DANCING WITH DEMENTIA income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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