DOGS FOR AUTISM

Registered charity 1181615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We train and provide dogs at no charge to children and adults of any age, anywhere in the UK, whose lives may significantly benefit from having an assistance dog. Through the provision of our assistance dogs, trained to mitigate the disabling aspects of autism, we are committed to creating and maintaining successful partnerships that impact positively on the lives of autistic people and families.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, SAFETY, EQUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF PEOPLE, IN ANY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHO ARE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM OR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ('AUTISM') BY BREEDING, PURCHASING OR FUNDING PUPPIES AND DOGS TO BE TRAINED AS AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS, PROVISION FOR THE TRAINING AND WELFARE OF SUCH DOGS AND TRAINING AND EDUCATING PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM AND THEIR GUARDIANS OR CARERS AND FAMILIES IN THE USE OF SUCH ASSISTANCE DOGS AND SUCH OTHER SERVICES, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM AND THEIR GUARDIANS OR CARERS AND FAMILIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DEEM FIT.

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

Causes: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Hampshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £73,339 for the 18-month period ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £149,088. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue operating on a going concern basis, noting that fundraising costs were reasonable and efficiencies had been embedded. The charity highlighted a significant increase in donations and income from fundraising events compared to the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Jamieson Stone LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/01/2023 (received 05/12/2023, 5 days after the 30/11/2023 due date).

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 — Dogs for Autism (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “National Lottery Communities Fund Grant We are so pleased to announce that we have been awarded £17,160 from The National Lottery Community …” (source page)
• Bluebird Care — “Dogs for Autism Wins Bluebird Care's £1,000 Community Grant We are absolutely delighted to receive a £1,000 Community Grant from Bluebird Ca…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 41.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ZOE LATTIMERchair
• Antonia Brown-Griffin
• Patrice Archer

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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

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 THE AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS CHARITY.

• THE AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS CHARITY income £905k
• SUPPORT DOGS LIMITED income £2.2m
• DOGS FOR GOOD income £5.6m
• DOG ASSISTANCE IN DISABILITY income £192k
• CANINE PARTNERS FOR INDEPENDENCE income £5.4m
• ABILITY DOGS 4 YOUNG PEOPLE IOW income £481k

Side by side with its peers

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