LITTLE TREASURES

Registered charity 1178397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

Sensory groups, chess club, pre teen groups, youth groups, parents support groups, social inclusion activities, courses on autism and workshops for for parents with autistic children.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND SIBLINGS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAY AND RECREATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN A SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT AND BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO PARENTS AND CARERS.2) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR CHILD’S CONDITION BY PROVIDING ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND GENERAL SUPPORT AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held a closing balance of £23,867.97 for the year ending 31 December 2025, having received £64,480.04 in income and spent £52,115.57. The independent examiner verified that the accounts are correct and complete with no material matters of concern.

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 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 01/02/2025 (received 18/05/2026, 168 days after the 01/12/2025 due date); year ending 01/04/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 5 days after the 01/02/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Little treasures autism charity uk (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £430k. 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire louise Dinsley
• Helen Collin
• John Joseph Scullion
• Sarah Betts
• Sarah Hardiman

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• AUTISM MATTERS income £1.4m
• LITTLE SENDSATIONS income £117k
• LETS UNITE FOR AUTISM LIMITED income £117k
• AUTISM BEDFORDSHIRE income £2.5m
• RESOURCES FOR AUTISM income £2.5m
• THE AUTISM GROUP income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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