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Understanding Dementia

Registered charity 238331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as T S AND S M FOOKES TRUST, THE T S AND S M FOOKES TRUST

We work in the field of dementia, providing awareness and information about the condition, and training in its effective management.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPOINT AND IN DEFAULT OF SUCH APPOINTMENT, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wokingham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£83k
Latest spending
£62k
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £20,049 for the year ended 05/04/2025, resulting in cash reserves of £61,681. The trustees hold these reserves to meet working capital requirements and deliver future training courses considering significant growth. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: to meet the working capital requirements to run the charity and to be able to deliver future training courses, considering significant growth (reserves figure: £62k)
“Reserve are held to meet the working capital requirements to run the charity and to be able to deliver future training courses, considering significant growth.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Volunteers: 4
  • Government income: £47,500 — contracts £47,500 (47,500); 58% of the £82,512 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Government income: £47,500 — contracts £47,500 (1); 54% of the £88,467 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Government income: £19,000 — contracts £19,000 (1); 67% of the £28,482 total gross income on the same return

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

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Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£83k£62k
05/04/2024£88k£63k
05/04/2023£28k£19k
05/04/2022£11k£8k
05/04/2021£1k£6k

Common questions

Is Understanding Dementia financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £20,049 for the year ended 05/04/2025, resulting in cash reserves of £61,681. The trustees hold these reserves to meet working capital requirements and deliver future training courses considering significant growth. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were disclosed.

Who funds Understanding Dementia?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Understanding Dementia as a grant recipient include THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£275Charitable activities (continued)

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION2£3k
ZURICH COMMUNITY TRUST (UK) LIMITED1£113k
THE SAINTBURY TRUST1£12k
HOUSING PATHWAYS TRUST1£12k
SUSANNA PEAKE CHARITABLE TRUST1£11k
ELEEMOSYNARY CHARITY OF WILLIAM HOBBAYNE1£10k
THE ROGER & DOUGLAS TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST1£10k
THE ANTON JURGENS CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Understanding Dementia£83k—0unclear—no doubt
DEMENTIA RESEARCH UK FY2025£1.4m—0unclear22.1%no doubt
DEMENTIA CONCERN FY2025£1.0mmore than £60,0001below—no doubt
Dementia Studio CIO FY2025£68k—0above—no doubt
BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMENTIA FOR SANDWELL FY2025£256k—0unclear—no doubt
REMINISCENCE LEARNING FY2025£304k—0below—no doubt

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