Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY

Improving and supporting the lives of autistic children, young people and adults, their parents, their families and carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£230£232£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£271£263£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£208£202£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£239£239£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£198£247£-49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£270£263£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£331£316£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£321£341£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£248£256£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£391£376£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£277£258£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£186£203£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£167£177£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£102£145£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£118£116£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£109£105£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£114£62£52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£46£41£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£36£53£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£74£90£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 25 years

www.autismberkshire.org.uk

ceo@autismberkshire.org.uk

01189594594

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£70,300
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
DCMS£9,997
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,500
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£4,000
Co-Operative Group£3,412
CAF£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Berkshire Autistic Society - 21/07/22
£3,000 18/08/2022
Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Autism Berkshire
£3,412 23/10/2021
We would like to run two Teen Life courses in Reading for parents of autistic children aged 10 to 16, and professionals who work with families, to help them support young people at this key stage.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 20/08/2021
Autism Berkshire application for a grant towards Revenue/Core costs
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Berkshire Autistic Society (working name Autism Berkshire) - 25/06/21
£1,000 07/07/2021
Berkshire Autism Alert Card
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,997 07/08/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Autism Berkshire - the working name of Berkshire Autistic Society
£70,300 10/06/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing advice and advocacy services to autistic people and their families at assessment and appeal hearings in Berkshire
CAF - Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society
£2,500 05/05/2020
3
Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society to support the organisation through COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society
£4,500 07/02/2020
purchase of laptop for a charity that works with people with disabilities in Berkshire
Sport England - Trampolining for autistic young people and adults
£7,233 04/11/2019
26
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Trampolining for autistic young people and adults. This project is a Trampolining project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/06/2019
Autism Berkshire application for grant towards Revenue/Core costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society
£28,715 21/05/2019
36
This project will provide trampoline sessions for children and young people with autism. The activities will help the children to build friendships and improve their physical and mental health.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 14/09/2017
Supporting People Living with Autism in Berkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Mental Health for at Risk Children and Young People with Aut
£9,890 05/04/2017
12
This funding will help to hire an external venue and employ sessional staff which will establish a new youth and social group for autistic children and young people. This will provide an opportunity for people to build new friendships, increase ....more
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£4,624 19/10/2016
Specialist services, training and social and leisure activities for people living with autism.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Berkshire Autistic Society
£26,300 24/02/2012
the salary costs of the Parent to Parent Post Diagnosis Workers' salaries, the Parent to Parent Project Administrator's salary, related project costs and core running costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-57
  • ADAM BERMANGE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Group Finance Analyst
  • ALISON BATES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Technology And Change Leader
  • CONNOR O'CONNOR (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Education Consultant
  • DARREN JONATHON BROWNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Commercial Director
  • PATRICK BULLARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Associate Professor University
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/06/1999, number: 1076217
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/04/1999, number: 03750656
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Berkshire Autistic Society
40 Caversham Road
READING
RG1 7EB

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SCHOOL AGE AND PRE-SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN AND ADULTS SUFFERING FROM AUTISM, AUTISTIC-RELATED PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR AND RESIDENT IN BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND MILTON KEYNES AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND MILTON KEYNES AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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