# Dementia Project UK Patients and Carers Foundation SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC050804
- **Known as:** Dementia Project UK
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** March 2, 2021
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC050804


## Contact

- **Address:** Clyde Offices 2nd Floor 48 West George Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 1BP
- **Website:** https://dementiafoundation.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** TO PROVIDE A WIDE VARIED RANGE OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT, GUIDE, INFORM, STIMULATE AND COMFORT PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES IN THE UK BUT SCOTLAND IN PARTICULAR, BY PROVIDING SUCH SERVICES AS A TELEPHONE SUPPORT LINE, RUN BY VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE OF COPING WITH DEMENTIA AND COMING TO TERMS WITH A LOVED ONE’S DIAGNOSIS BY PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION AND THE PROMOTION OF THIS TYPE OF SUPPORT WHICH WILL ASSIST BOTH THE VOLUNTEERS AND THOSE CALLING THE SERVICE

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** 4.1 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROVIDE A WIDE VARIED RANGE OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT, GUIDE, INFORM, STIMULATE AND COMFORT PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES IN THE UK BUT SCOTLAND IN PARTICULAR, BY PROVIDING SUCH SERVICES AS A TELEPHONE SUPPORT LINE, RUN BY VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE OF COPING WITH DEMENTIA AND COMING TO TERMS WITH A LOVED ONE’S DIAGNOSIS BY PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION AND THE PROMOTION OF THIS TYPE OF SUPPORT WHICH WILL ASSIST BOTH THE VOLUNTEERS AND THOSE CALLING THE SERVICE





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







