Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

DEMENTIA CONCERN

The charity provides weekend day care, care and respite in the home, support, advice and information, assessment and client representation for carers and people with dementia. It also provides services for younger people with dementia.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,270£1,193£76£39£316£2452.55729
31/03/22£977£977£0£7£240£1932.4551
31/03/21£1,076£903£174£23£240£2112.8541
31/03/20£1,000£1,096£-95£0£66£170.2623
31/03/19£1,047£1,121£-74£33£162£9716620
31/03/18£1,101£1,155£-54£15£236£2082.2670
31/03/17£1,129£1,105£24£24£290£2743650
31/03/16£928£1,013£-85£64£266£2653.1790
31/03/15£1,083£1,009£75£66£352£3233.8350
31/03/14£930£934£-4£63£277£2763.5350
31/03/13£900£876£23£71£281£2803.8330
31/03/12£947£885£61£67£258£2583.5340
31/03/11£1,008£973£35£76£197£1972.4350
31/03/10£1,038£1,043£-6£80£161£1601.8390
31/03/09£974£1,020£-46£77£167£1401.7390
31/03/08£898£1,026£-128£88£213£1742420
31/03/07£1,071£927£143£76£341£2933.8370
31/03/06*£807£822£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£761£803£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£796£769£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 32 years

www.dementiaconcern.co.uk

enquiries@dementiaconcern.co.uk

02085684448

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ealing,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£101,500
The Clothworkers Foundation£20,000
The London Community Foundation£10,000
DCMS£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Music Activity Cafe
£10,000 18/06/2021
The funding will be used to provide a free musical activity service for people using a dementia-friendly space and will be targeted at people who have been isolated during Covid-19. The project aims to support people during the current Covid-19 ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Dementia Concern
£10,000 03/09/2020
The requested funding is for additional equipment needed for staff to continue working effectively. We are asking for funds for laptops, so staff are able to work remotely and adapt to not being able to work from their office desk. We will also be ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 03/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Concern Salary Costs
£91,500 26/05/2020
6
The funding will be used to support the charity’s administrative function which enables them to extend their services throughout the current coronavirus pandemic.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Dementia Concern
£20,000 04/02/2020
refurbishment of community-office building for a charity which works with older people in Ealing
National Lottery Community Fund - Ealing Dementia Cafés
£50,000 23/04/2019
12
TPP4 - Ealing Dementia Café
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Dementia Concern
£82,000 07/09/2018
36
£82,000 over three years (£26,800; £27,300; £27,900) for one full-time Community Support Worker and associated costs to provide support services to people living alone with dementia in Ealing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 14/02/2018
Community Support Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Cafe for carers and people with dementia
£8,661 24/01/2018
12
This project will deliver a series of activities for carers who support people with dementia, in order to improve their mental wellbeing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-59
  • ASHEET VINODRAI PATEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Management Accountant
  • GAIL NATASHA BRIDGEMAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Marketing
  • JUDITH ANNE WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Finance Director
  • RICHARD ANTHONY BLAKE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Auditor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/10/1992, number: 1014834
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/09/1992, number: 02748840
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 15 days late,
Main office

DEMENTIA CONCERN
223 WINDMILL ROAD
LONDON
W5 4DJ

Objectives

TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARERS TO LIVE AS INDEPENDENTLY AS POSSIBLE BY IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROVIDING DEMENTIA CARE SERVICES AND PRACTICAL HELP

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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