BEYONDAUTISM

Registered charity 1082599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEYOND AUTISM, THE RAINBOW CHARITY FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, THE RAINBOW SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN

To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education and health of children diagnosed with autism and/or other autistic and related communication disorders.

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Latest income
£11.6m
Latest spending
£11.4m
Registered
2000
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the audit identified significant deficiencies in internal controls related to expenditure cutoff procedures, VAT accounting on fixed assets, and payroll overpayments. However, the auditors confirmed there were no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern and anticipated issuing an unmodified audit report.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£11.6m
Total spending
£11.4m
Reserves (reported)
£2.1m
Employees
255

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£11.6m£11.4m
31/08/2024£10.7m£11.7m
31/08/2023£10.2m£10.5m
31/08/2022£10.0m£9.4m
31/08/2021£8.6m£7.7m

Common questions

Is BEYONDAUTISM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the audit identified significant deficiencies in internal controls related to expenditure cutoff procedures, VAT accounting on fixed assets, and payroll overpayments. However, the auditors confirmed there were no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern and anticipated issuing an unmodified audit report. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit.

Who funds BEYONDAUTISM?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BEYONDAUTISM as a grant recipient include THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS, THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION, PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION, E B M CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE STORY OF CHRISTMASFY2025£39k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£33k
PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATIONFY2025£32kto fund the new post of BeyondAutism Fast Responder Development Manager.
THE STORY OF CHRISTMASFY2022£31k
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATIONFY2024£30ktowards the expansion of the innovative Fast Responder Service for autistic children facing exclusion from school
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£25k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£24k
E B M CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£10kGrant paid to institution
THE MICHAEL BISHOP FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£6k
DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUSTFY2023£5kChamber Music in Residence
THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2025£5k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£5k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£3k
WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INSURERS CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE DE BRYE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATIONFY2025£785

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation14/07/2023£4kGrant to BeyondAutism
The National Lottery Community Fund07/10/2022£10kOnline Autism ‘Resource Hub’
City Bridge Foundation25/08/2021£50kGrant to BeyondAutism
The National Lottery Community Fund09/07/2021£8kAutism Directory/ Digital Resource Hub development
City Bridge Foundation30/01/2020£178kGrant to BeyondAutism
Sport England23/09/2019£8kCycle for Life
The National Lottery Community Fund01/02/2019£380kEarly Years
The National Lottery Community Fund22/06/2018£10kBeyondAutism Website Development

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 Unlimited Limited.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BEYONDAUTISM£11.6m—0unclear—no doubt
Autism Unlimited Limited FY2025£15.6m——within51.5%no doubt
NORTH EAST AUTISM SOCIETY FY2025£36.7m——unclear—no doubt
THE ISLAND PROJECT FY2025£1.5m£60,001 - £70,0003below—no doubt
OAKHYRST GRANGE SCHOOL CIO FY2025£1.8m—0unclear—no doubt
AUTISM VOICE LTD FY2025£194k—0unclear—no doubt

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