Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

ASPERGER LONDON AREA GROUP (ALAG)

ALAG provides invaluable social support to high functioning but vulnerable adults on the autism spectrum. We support individuals to understand their diagnosis and provide the social and emotional support essential to their well-being. ALAG offers information, advice and guidance to our members and associates, supporting them to access services and engage in their community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

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£274£181£93n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£251£144£106n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£181£94£87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£60£28£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£15£11£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£11£3£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£3£3£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£34£25£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

www.alag.org.uk

info@alag.org.uk

07435560568

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • 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
Cripplegate Foundation£54,500
Camden Giving£30,000
Cloudesley£12,000
London Catalyst£700
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Asperger London Area Group (ALAG) /Autism Hub Islington
£4,500 04/01/2023
Cost of living increase
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Asperger London Area Group (ALAG) /Autism Hub Islington
£45,000 29/06/2022
Core funding
Cloudesley - Grant to ALAG/Autism Hub Islington
£2,000 21/10/2021
Grant Support Fund - Towards the inputting of data and other information onto the new case management system and monitoring system
Camden Giving - ALAG/Autism Hub
£30,000 28/04/2021
Community Ideas Project
London Catalyst - AUTISM HUB Islington/ALAG (Asperger's London Area Group) - 3
£700 16/04/2021
The Autism Post-Diagnostic Support Project P4H + SHST additional grant for Covid costs & evaluation
Cloudesley - Grant to ALAG/Autism Hub Islington
£10,000 23/02/2021
Partners for Health-Covid Response Project
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Asperger London Area Group (ALAG) /Autism Hub Islington
£5,000 30/06/2020
Partners for Health Autism Post Diagnostic Project
London Catalyst - AUTISM HUB Islington/ALAG (Asperger's London Area Group) - 1
£5,000 04/09/2018
Autism Hub Islington
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Asperger London Area Group (ALAG) /Autism Hub Islington
£5,000 06/03/2018
Towards an Islington Autism Hub
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DR JASON CRABTREE Appointed: 2016
  • JOHN HARRISON (Chair) Appointed: 2014
  • JESSIKA RITTSTIEG Appointed: 2020
  • NICHOLAS STONE Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/02/2015, number: 1160477
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
8 returns made; AR16: 16 days late,
Main office

ALAG
c/o Voluntary Action Islington
200A Pentonville Road
N1 9JP

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ADULTS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME AND RELATED CONDITIONS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND ADVICE.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ASPERGER SYNDROME AND RELATED CONDITIONS, IN PARTICULAR AMONG THOSE WHO WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUCH CONDITIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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