Autism Unlimited Limited

Registered charity 1000792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AUTISM WESSEX, THE WESSEX AUTISTIC SOCIETY

Principal activities are:Education, care and short break services for children and young people with autism, learning difficulties or associated mental health difficulties.Social care services to adults, children and families whose lives are affected by autism, learning difficulties or associated mental health difficultiesInformation, advice and advocacy services.

Objects

For the public benefit for the provision of education services, social care, assessment, training, advocacy and support in preparing for adulthood including employment and other support services to people with autism, with or awaiting a formal diagnosis, and other similar complex needs and their families and carers, whether or not these conditions are associated with other disabilities or medical conditions.

Area of benefit: DORSET, EAST SOMERSET, WEST HAMPSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £532,535 for the year, with total income increasing to £15,633,405. Free reserves were held at £6.1 million, which the trustees confirmed was in line with their target of three to six months' expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rothmans Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02506982

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Autism Unlimited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anna Hewitt — Headteacher (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BLAGBROUGH, Catherine — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• CLAYFORTH-CARR, Michael William John — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• HAWKER ROUDIANI, Tara Katyusha — director, appointed 01/09/2025not on trustee list
• KING, Andrew James — director, appointed 19/12/2023on trustee list
• THURGOOD, Janet Mary — director, appointed 27/06/2022not on trustee list
• BRAZIER, James Henry — director, appointed 06/02/2020on trustee list
• WEARN, Donna — secretary, appointed 01/01/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Autism Unlimited Limited — Registered, 16 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 05/06/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (7,861 followers) · instagram (2,100 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Community Support Services East: Good (11/05/2023) · CQC record
• Middle Path: Good (11/07/2025) · CQC record
• Greenways: Good (25/04/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James King
• Catherine Blagbrough
• James Henry Brazier
• Janet Mary Thurgood MBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• MALCOLM FARRELL
• Mark Beresford Jones
• Michael William John Clayforth-Carr
• Tara Katyusha Hawker Roudiani

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Poole · Somerset · Southampton City · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED.

• EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED income £20.9m
• THE AUTISM TRUST LIMITED income £61k
• LONDON AUTISM GROUP CHARITY income £52k
• AUTISM INITIATIVES GROUP income £93.1m
• AUTISM PLUS LIMITED income £13.3m
• THE TRANSFORMING AUTISM PROJECT income £201k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.