Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +6

AUTISTICA 

Autistica funds medical research to understand autism, improve diagnosis and develop new interventions. We are the UK's leading autism medical research charity, and we are committed to answering the questions that matter most to children and adults on the autism spectrum and their families
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 19 years

http://www.autistica.org.uk/

james.cusack@autistica.org.uk

02038574340

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UN SDGs
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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£1,544£1,798£-254£302£1,550£8415.621100
31/03/22£1,501£1,497£4£252£1,831£1,46011.724100
31/03/21£2,012£1,591£420£282£1,785£1,462111850
31/03/20£1,725£1,994£-269£414£1,287£8154.922100
31/03/19£1,742£2,479£-737£485£1,540£1,031527300
31/03/18£2,195£2,163£32£503£2,245£5573.1150
31/03/17£3,593£1,612£1,981£476£2,213£1,56911.7150
31/03/16?£705£878£-173£387£231£1892.6100
31/12/14£1,086£1,208£-122£296£405£808870
31/12/13£871£815£56£290£527£4446.570
31/12/12£1,058£848£210£362£471£4646.650
31/12/11£1,092£901£191£285£261£1692.260
31/12/10£1,121£1,206£-85£371£70£430.470
31/12/09£850£1,258£-408£320£155£610.680
31/12/08£1,303£851£453£393£563£4906.970
31/12/07£867£896£-29£351£111£901.250
31/12/06?*£605£540£65£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£173£99£75£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 19.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 16.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 5.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 5.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 21 employees
  • 100 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Times 2018 Awards Charity of the Year, Income £1-5m
  • Charity Awards 2018 Disability Charity
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
CareTech foundation£160,000
City Bridge Trust£23,989
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,999
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Changemakers: amplifying the voices of inspirational autistic role models
£9,999 15/10/2021
The funding is being used to support people with Autism who are isolated with a lack of positive role models. It will offer webinars accessible videos podcasts and blogs that amplifies the voices of ....more
CareTech foundation - The Social Care Action Fund
£160,000 21/01/2021
The programme catalyses a wave of new research that can understand what high-quality social care looks like for autistic adults and how it can be delivered well in the real world. Autistica will do ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 25/08/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Autistica
£23,989 05/06/2020
£23,989 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£50,000 08/03/2019
Charity will work in partnership with Kings College London to help parents teach their children to communicate using Picture Exchange Communication System - PECS.  PECS teaches autistic children to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Discover Autism Research: Podcast
£10,000 07/02/2019
12
The project will deliver outreach and support activities and podcasts that are designed to meet the needs of people and families who live with the effects of autism. The aim is to raise awareness of ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Autistica
£28,000 19/12/2017
12
Impact reporting: building a community led approach to autism research
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/12/2004, number: 1107350
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/07/2004, number: 05184164
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
  • Investment
  • 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
18 returns made; AR06: 82 days late,
Main office

Suite B
6 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF AUTISM, INCLUDING BY (1) THE PROMOTION, FACILITATION AND SUPPORT OF RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF AUTISM AND (2) THE DISSEMINATION AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS, SO AS TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS REGARDING ALL ASPECTS OF AUTISM;TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH TRAINING, COURSES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK EXPERIENCE AND BY THE PROVISION (TO EMPLOYERS AND AUTISTIC PEOPLE) OF TRAINING AND FACILITIES TO ENABLE AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP SKILLS SO AS TO ENHANCE THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKPLACE;TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS, INCLUDING BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS, INTERVENTIONS AND RESOURCES TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG AUTISTIC PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES;THE FURTHERANCE OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH OPERATES TO BENEFIT AUTISTIC PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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