RESOURCES FOR AUTISM

Registered charity 1061253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Resources for Autism provides practical serices for individuals on the autistic spectrum and their families. These include music and art therapy, play and youth club services, holiday play schemes, adult art studio and social skills groups, home based family support, siblings groups and information and advice. These take place in a range of venues throughout the UK.

Objects

A) TO SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND RELATED CONDITIONSB) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF FAMILIES AND CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND RELATED CONDITIONS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus of £2,320, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £968,133, with the charity maintaining reserves equivalent to 4.54 months of current expenditure. The trustees note that while the financial position is positive, they are aware of the need to increase reserves towards their policy target of 6 to 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Begbies Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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
• 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

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Phil Cook — CEO (source)
• Anne-Marie Trevelyan — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Bloomfield Trust — “Our supporters Bloomfield Trust” (source page)
• MK2 Real Estate — “Principal Charity of the Year Partner MK2 Real Estate” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £670k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Montgomery
• Dr Aarthi Sinha
• Marc Theo Hommel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Andrew Hodgson
• Rebecca Ellen Lowe
• Thomas Frederick William Moody
• Thomas Guy Sneesby

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Dudley · Essex · Hertfordshire · Sandwell · Solihull · Throughout London · Walsall · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 AUTISM BEDFORDSHIRE.

• AUTISM BEDFORDSHIRE income £2.5m
• AUTISM VENTURES income £871k
• AUTISM EAST MIDLANDS income £17.9m
• AUTISM HAMPSHIRE income £7.1m
• LEICESTERSHIRE EMPOWERMENT FOR AUTISM TODAY income £75k
• EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED income £20.9m

Side by side with its peers

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