ASPIE LIMITED

Registered charity 1145351 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASPIE, ASPIE LTD

ASPIE is a community based specialist support service for autistic adults. We provide peer support, autism specficcounselling, creative wellbeing activities including drama and art therapy groups, information and advocacy, helpingautistic adults reduce isolation, improve emotional wellbeing and develop confidence and self-worth to achieve thesocial inclusion they long for.

Objects

THE ASSISTANCE OF ADULTS WITH ASPERGER'S SYNDROME (KNOWN AS ASPIES) IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER AND SURROUNDING AREAS TO LEAD LIVES LESS DISABLED BY THE CONDITION, THEREBY BENEFITTING THEM, THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY. PROVIDING AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH ASPIES ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO: UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THEIR NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCE GAIN CONFIDENCE AND IMPROVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS BUILD A NETWORK OF SUPPORT IN THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ACCESS SUITABLE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COURSES AND DEVELOP EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION SKILLS. TO PROVIDE AUTISM SPECIFIC IN-HOUSE AND ONLINE COUNSELLING SERVICES TO HELP RELIEVE DEPRESSION AND CRISIS IN PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE WORCESTER AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves amounted to £197,954, which the trustees consider to be in excess of their stated policy target of four months of running costs. The charity reported a net increase in unrestricted funds of £88,585 for the year, driven largely by exceptional incoming resources from a merger, while total expenditure decreased compared to the prior year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07666773

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.

• RAWLINS, Derek Charles — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Caren — director, appointed 13/07/2024on trustee list
• GREEN, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 08/07/2015on trustee list
• MICKLEWRIGHT BEM, Julia Elizabeth — director, appointed 30/03/2014not on trustee list
• GREEN, Elizabeth Ann — secretary, appointed 30/04/2014

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Elizabeth Micklewrightchair
• Caren Richards
• DEREK CHARLES RAWLINS
• ELIZABETH ANN GREEN

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASPIRE LIVING LIMITED.

• ASPIRE LIVING LIMITED income £11.4m
• Autism Unlimited Limited income £15.6m
• RESOURCES FOR AUTISM income £2.5m
• AUTISM HAMPSHIRE income £7.1m
• ALLIED SERVICES TRUST income £163k
• ASIST income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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