AUTISM BEDFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1100722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Autism related family respite services, Youth groups, Summer activity schemes, Helpline, life/social/work skills training, parent training, library.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (AND RELATED CONDITIONS) AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BEDFORDSHIRE, LUTON, HERTFORDSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £2,466,881 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,437,896. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of approximately £267,000 are held against an annual expenditure of £2,008,077, which they consider sufficient to meet foreseeable demands. The independent auditors have confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cox & Co (Accountancy) Limited. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04632497

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.

• BATCHELOR-ROLES, Natalie Louise — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• PARR, Paula Jane — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• GUY, Pat — director, appointed 18/11/2019not on trustee list
• WREST, Pamela — director, appointed 19/11/2018on trustee list
• DELAFIELD, Philip John — director, appointed 01/09/2017on trustee list
• SCOTT, Peter — director, appointed 01/10/2016on trustee list
• MONTGOMERY, Lauraine Sarah — director, appointed 09/01/2003on trustee list
• BULLED, Jeffrey William — director, appointed 09/01/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £925k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Autism Bedfordshire — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LAURAINE Montgomerychair
• JEFFREY BULLED
• Natalie Batchelor-Roles
• PETER SCOTT
• Patricia Guy
• Philip John Delafield

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 HAMPSHIRE.

• AUTISM HAMPSHIRE income £7.1m
• RESOURCES FOR AUTISM income £2.5m
• BERKSHIRE AUTISTIC SOCIETY income £207k
• THE AUTISM GROUP income £111k
• EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED income £20.9m
• AUTISM EAST MIDLANDS income £17.9m

Side by side with its peers

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