Wendover Dementia Support
2025
Chairman’s Report
We are a charity formed in 2019 to provide support for people living locally with a diagnosis of dementia. We accept referrals for people with dementia who live at home and are registered with Westongrove GP partnership.
We believe in a positive approach where people living with dementia can be helped to achieve a real and sustained sense of contentment and wellbeing. We do this by helping families develop an effective way of providing support that can prevent many of the dilemmas and difficulties often associated with this condition.
We consist of a team of forty-six trained volunteers that brings together a wide range of knowledge, skills and experience. The team includes two retired GPs, a palliative care nurse and a Dementia Champion and these senior volunteers have undertaken further training in dementia, in order to provide professional advice and coaching. We offer a choice of support depending on individual circumstances. This includes:
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a weekly Monday Club Café for enjoyable activities, live music and an opportunity to meet others in a similar position ( transport is provided)
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Home Visits for individual assessment and advice
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Family Support Group with workshops and online forums provide information, coaching and advice for sons and daughters who may not live locally.
Achievements 2024-2025
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WDS has supported 154 people with dementia and their families since the charity started. As dementia is a progressive illness visitors leave WDS because they either permanently admitted into a care home or sadly die. Generally the number of new visitors coming to the Café equals the number leaving and we are normally supporting just over 50 people with dementia and their families at any one time.
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Monday Club Café a. Average attendance per week = 74 people in 2 sessions
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b. Number of husbands and wives attending = 28 people
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c. Additional activities:
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i. Tea Dance - 4 events
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ii. Tea parties with local charity Lindengate – 2 events
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iii. Quainton railway visit iv. Road Farm visit
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Home visits
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a. All new visitors are visited – 20+ home visits in 2024- 2025
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Family Support Group
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a. No. of sons and daughters supported – 68 people
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b. Saturday morning workshops – 6 events
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c. Additional lectures / seminars
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i. Finance and legal issues
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ii. Families and dementia
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WDS Home Carer Trial
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a. 8 families provide with free 10 hr home care taster session b. Positive evaluation
Collaboration
We work closely with the Complex Care team at Westongrove GP partnership, Buckinghamshire Council Dementia Support Service and the local Memory Clinic based at Whiteleaf in Aylesbury. We also collaborate actively with a number of Bucks charities.
Funding
We have made successful bids to a number of grant awarding charities such as Heart of Bucks, The KIng Cullimore Trust, the local Masonic Lodge, Wendover Parsh Council and others. This is supplemented by donations from individual philanthropists and our families.
Plans
We are hoping to recruit a paid Care Co-ordinator to provide coaching for our families and ensure the sustainability of the charity.
Dr P. Moreton Chairman Wendover Dementia Support
July 2025
Wendover Dementia Support
(charity number 1182184)
Financial Activities Income and Expenditure
| Income and Expenditure Income Donations - Unrestricted Funds Cafe Events, Social & Christmas Individuals Just Giving Memorials Organisations PayPal Giving Fund Total Donations - Unrestricted Funds Gift Aid HMRC Gift Aid claim Just Giving Gift Aid Total Gift Aid Grants and Donations - Restricted Funds Grant from Bucks Council Grant from Parish Council Other Donations Total Grants and Donations - Restricted Funds Interest Received Total Income Expenditure Banking & Fees Cafe Carer Project Events and Social Overheads Total Expenditure Net Income / (Expenditure) |
Year ending £ 1,261.45 2,499.84 10,542.21 1,250.00 2,225.77 10,531.47 135.60 £ 28,446.34 2,338.00 287.51 £ 2,625.51 0.00 0.00 0.00 £ 0.00 898.91 £ 31,970.76 344.31 7,055.26 4,474.33 3,435.80 16,423.00 £ 31,732.70 £ 238.06 31 December 2024 |
Year ending £ 1,224.70 2,380.00 1,876.98 4,630.01 1,280.00 9,620.93 328.53 31 December 2023 |
| £ 21,341.15 489.00 936.25 |
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| £ 1,425.25 3,000.00 5,000.00 13,783.00 |
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| £ 21,783.00 432.46 |
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| £ 44,981.86 328.39 5,502.42 - 2,901.73 14,042.61 |
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| £ 22,775.15 | ||
| £ 22,206.71 |
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Wendover Dementia Support
(charity number 1182184)
Financial Activities
| Balance Sheet Fixed Assets Tangible assets Fixtures and Fittings Office Equipment Total Fixed Asset Current Assets Debtors Total Debtors Cash at bank and in hand CAF Bank CAF Gold Account Cafe Petty Cash Total Cash at bank and in hand Creditors Creditors Total Creditors Net Current Assets Total Assets Less Current Liabilities Charity Funds Opening Balance Equity Surplus / (Deficit) Total Charity Funds |
295.00 |
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| £ 295.00 2,302.63 38,112.36 183.02 |
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| £ 37.95 |
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