Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 4

BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY

Improving and supporting the lives of autistic children, young people and adults, their parents, their families and carers.

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Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 25 years

www.autismberkshire.org.uk

ceo@autismberkshire.org.uk

01189594594

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£271	£263	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22	£208	£202	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21	£239	£239	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/20	£198	£247	£-49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/19	£281	£202	£78	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/18	£270	£263	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£331	£316	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£321	£341	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£248	£256	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£391	£376	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£277	£258	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£186	£203	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£167	£177	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£102	£145	£-43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£118	£116	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£109	£105	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£114	£62	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£46	£41	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£36	£53	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£74	£90	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant 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
BBC Children in Need	£28,715
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000
DCMS	£9,997
Sport England	£7,233
The Clothworkers Foundation	£4,500
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust	£4,000
Co-Operative Group	£3,412

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Berkshire Autistic Society - 21/07/22
£3,000	18/08/2022	Core Funding
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A novel small molecule approach to enhance cancer immunotherapy
£-13	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=103852
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 ....more "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
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 ....more 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 ....more 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 their confidence, self-esteem and reduce isolation.
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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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-57

ADAM BERMANGE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Group Finance Analyst

CONNOR O'CONNOR (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Education Consultant

DARREN JONATHON BROWNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Commercial Director

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
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
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.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BERKSHIRE

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