BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 1076217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Autism Berkshire, BAS

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

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

Latest income
£207k
Latest spending
£230k
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £22,917 for the year, with total income of £207,144. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £68,543, and the trustees expressed concern about the sustainability of relying on reserves and the risk of NHS funding ceasing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: NHS funding (73% of income)
“NHS funding accounted for 73% of all project income” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£207k£230k
31/03/2024£230k£232k
31/03/2023£271k£263k
31/03/2022£208k£202k
31/03/2021£239k£239k

Common questions

Is BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £22,917 for the year, with total income of £207,144. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £68,543, and the trustees expressed concern about the sustainability of relying on reserves and the risk of NHS funding ceasing. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY as a grant recipient include BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE HARGREAVES FOUNDATION, GERALD PALMER ELING TRUST COMPANY, THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE EARLEY CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England12/03/2025£8kTrampolining for autistic children & teenagers
Sport England04/11/2019£7kTrampolining for autistic young people and adults
The National Lottery Community Fund19/12/2016£6kCelebrating Autism Awareness Day 2017
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/08/2015£10k"Autism in Berkshire: Tracing the history & development of autism understanding in the county of Berkshire"
The National Lottery Community Fund24/06/2015£10kStrengthening Information & Communication Systems
The National Lottery Community Fund20/09/2012£9kBerkshire Autistic Society's - Information4Adults
The National Lottery Community Fund24/01/2006£200kBerkshire Autism Society

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AUTISM HAMPSHIRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY£207k—0unclear—no doubt
AUTISM HAMPSHIRE FY2025£7.1m—1unclear—no doubt
AUTISM BEDFORDSHIRE FY2025£2.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY FY2025£102.0m——unclear16.7%no doubt
BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID FY2025£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
MORE EDUCATION FY2025£531k—0below—no doubt

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