Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

DEMENTIA SUPPORT 

Dementia Support was started by a group of local people who had been personally touched by dementia.The aim is to work alongside existing organisations to bring together and enrich their offering and the services they provide and to ultimately provide exceptional dementia care.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 10 years

www.dementiasupport.org.uk

info@dementiasupport.org.uk

01243 888691

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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
31/03/23*£1,111£1,299£-188£216£1,241£1,20711.13673
31/03/22£960£1,054£-94£234£1,429£1,35615.4290
31/03/21£922£893£29£202£1,523£1,32917.9270
31/03/20£1,104£882£222£172£1,494£1,39018.92626
31/03/19?£665£619£46£147£1,272£1,27224.62020
31/05/18*£1,107£405£702£67£1,226£1,17634.8150
31/05/17£619£217£402£14£524£46625.830
31/05/16£277£187£90£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/15*£201£101£101£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 20.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 16.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 11.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 36 employees
  • 73 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • West Sussex,

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£125,000
DCMS£83,512
National Lottery Community Fund£59,863
Masonic Trust£46,094
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£46,094 16/03/2023
Dementia Support Wayfinding Outreach
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Dementia Support - 01/08/22
£3,000 01/09/2022
Core Funding
Wates Foundation - National Ambitions Program - RWF May 2022
£7,000 19/05/2022
Our national ambitions program aims to take the learning from our pioneering model, and upscale it to change the way dementia is supported across society. We will deliver the academic evaluation, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 11/03/2022
Changing the lives of people living with dementia
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Dementia Support - 25/05/21
£1,000 23/06/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Day Breaks
£10,000 12/03/2021
12
The funding will be used to help the group deliver a specialist day care service for people with dementia. The service not only supports people with dementia but their carers too. This aims to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 06/11/2020
Dementia Support
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dementia Support, Sage House
£2,531 24/10/2020
Our new Wayfinder Appeal will help more people live well with dementia in our community and expand our support services at Sage House.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£83,512 29/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dementia Support
£10,000 13/07/2020
Dementia Support is working to transform dementia care across West Sussex and beyond. In May 2018, they opened the first dementia community hub in the UK - Sage House - where all those affected can ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Dementia Support
£5,000 18/03/2020
Supporting ending social exclusion for elderly people
National Lottery Community Fund - Wayfinding service development
£49,863 12/12/2019
11
Dementia Support will use funding to extend its range of services, currently offered at its purpose-built dementia hub, to isolated and vulnerable communities facing barriers to accessing the hub. ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dementia Support
£4,990 15/03/2019
11
Funding was provided towards a Wayfinding service for individuals and families affected by dementia.
Wates Foundation - Dementia Support
£20,000 13/09/2018
To recruit two part-time support workers to increase capacity.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dementia Support
£5,000 16/03/2018
12
Dementia Support provide support services for local people who have memory loss and dementia, their carers, family and friends. Funding was provide to support their operations and to consolidate ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 07/03/2018
Dementia Support Hub - Renovation Project
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dementia Support
£3,066 04/08/2017
Help us bring all local Dementia services under one roof for ease of access to people living with the illness with a dedicated centre.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Dementia Support
£75,000 16/06/2017
Refurbishment of building for dementia centre
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 39-69
  • CHRIS THORNHILL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Motorsport And E&H Marketing
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/09/2014, number: 1158640
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/05/2014, number: 09044373
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
9 returns made; AR23: 19 days late, AR18: 3 days late, AR15: 23 days late,
Main office

Sage House
City Fields Business Park
City Fields Way
Tangmere
Chichester
West Sus

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY DEMENTIA AND OTHER RELATED DISORDERS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND CARE FOR SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS;2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC REGARDING DEMENTIA AND OTHER RELATED DISORDERS;3. ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT THE DIRECTORS CONSIDER INCIDENTAL TO OR ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH PURPOSES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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