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Alzheimer's Society Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. Their 2024–25 annual report covers a record £116.8m fundraising income, 106,000 people reached directly through services, £18.6m invested in dementia research, 291,290 new supporters, and sustained work to improve dementia diagnosis rates and care quality across the UK.

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Dementia Support Line, one-to-one dementia services, group services, Singing for the Brain, local authority dementia support contracts (£23m+ statutory income), research grants, Blood Biomarker Challenge, UK Dementia Trials Network, diagnosis campaigning, policy and influencing work

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £116.8 million total fundraising income — the most successful fundraising year in the charity's history
Key Metric 2 106,000 people reached directly through services — 13,000 through groups, 77,000 through one-to-one dementia services, 29,000 through the Dementia Support Line
Key Metric 3 £18.6 million invested in activities to support dementia research; 291,290 new supporters joined in 2024–25

Key Outcomes

  • People affected by dementia accessed direct advice, group support and one-to-one dementia services
  • Dementia research and trials capacity strengthened through major investment and national partnerships
  • £16.1 million invested in activities to influence the health and care agenda; 90% success rate in retaining or winning new health and social care dementia support contracts

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022