About Us

BIADS is a registered charity and limited company by guarantee formed by Barnsley people.

Registered charity number 1140201
Company limited by guarantee 7362470

Our purpose is to provide support to people within the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough who have any form of dementia along with their families and friends.

As we are an independent group we can guarantee that all funds raised and donations received will be used to benefit our members locally - unlike some national organisations.

Benefits of BIADS membership

The benefits of being a BIADS member are:

You can download membership forms here in word and pdf formats.

BIADS' Member Services

We have an ever growing range of services to offer BIADS members.

Winner of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Service Excellence Awards 2011 for Best Voluntary Service Provision.

Click on the links below to find out more about each service.

The BIADS Logo

We have chosen the 'tree of hearts' to symbolise the ethos of our organisation.
The trunk of the tree represents BIADS with our roots firmly in the Barnsley community.
The hearts represent those people who have dementia and those who love and care for them.
The branches are the services that BIADS offer - reaching out to support those affected by dementia in Barnsley.

Want to know more

If you need to know more about BIADS you can email us here or you can phone us on 01226 280057.

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