Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • Spending falling: -1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMENTIA FOR SANDWELL 

Befriending service for people with dementiaWeekly clubs for people with dementiaSupport service for family carers of people with dementiaDementia-awareness training for Social Services/Healthcare professionals and Care Home staff
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Established: 14 years

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£281£208£73n/an/an/an/an/a15
30/06/22£218£189£29n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/06/21£178£124£54n/an/an/an/an/a15
30/06/20£262£258£4n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/06/19£324£307£16n/an/an/an/an/a134
30/06/18£310£316£-6£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£263£370£-107£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£489£442£47£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£463£394£69£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£327£286£41£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£232£245£-13£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£157£154£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£81£65£16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sandwell,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£16,659
Masonic Trust£15,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Musical Memories
£9,155 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to pilot weekly music sessions for people living with mild to moderate dementia. The project aims to reduce anxiety and depression help maintain speech and language enhance ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Core costs
£2,000 17/06/2021
Towards annual core costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 14/08/2020
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Taking Care of Yourself
£7,504 15/08/2019
12
The funding will be used to improve delivery of support services for people working in care. The project aims to improve training and advice resources to carers.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 23/07/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell
£15,000 16/10/2018
purchase of a minibus for a charity which works with older people in the West Midlands
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell
£42,041 24/04/2018
24
To enable a Sandwell based charity to continue provision of high quality training and management of volunteers delivering befriending to Carers of people diagnosed with dementia.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustainable Dementia Support for Sandwell
£10,000 12/07/2017
12
This group will use the funding to conduct a service review and consultation exercise. This will improve how it serve the needs of people with dementia and their carers, including those who do not ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BUDS - Project Bellflower
£431,479 14/06/2017
60
This project will provide continued support for people living with dementia and their carers, in Sandwell, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall. Support is available through a befriending ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Better Understanding of Dementia Sandwell (BUDS)
£15,000 08/12/2016
Minibus
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell
£46,000 09/09/2015
24
To enable a Sandwell based charity to continue provision of high quality training and management of volunteers delivering befriending to Carers of people diagnosed with dementia.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell
£29,000 29/06/2012
the salary costs of the Volunteer Manager
National Lottery Community Fund - BUDS (Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell)
£207,663 18/04/2012
60
Better Understanding of Dementia in Sandwell (BUDS) will develop its work to improve the quality of life of people experiencing dementia and their family carers and to support them to continue living ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-80
  • PETER GAUNT Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Funeral Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/01/2010, number: 1133484
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/02/2009, number: 06814962
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Main office

BARLOW COMMUNITY HALL
110 Pound Road
OLDBURY
West Midlands
B68 8NB

Objectives

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA LIVING IN AREA OF BENEFIT AND THEIR CARERS, TO ENABLE THEM TO REMAIN LIVING IN THEIR OWN HOMES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:1. THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION FOR CARERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC; AND2 THE PROVISION OF RELEVANT SUPPORT SERVICES AND TRAINING FOR SUFFERERS OF DEMENTIA, THEIR CARERS AND THE MEDICAL AND OTHER STAFF WHO HELP THEM. THE AREA OF BENEFIT IS THE WEST MIDLANDS, PARTICULARLY THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST MIDLANDS, PARTICULARLY THE BOROUGH OF SANDWEL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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