SPECTRUM GAMING

Registered charity 1193763 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Spectrum Gaming is an online community for autistic young people which has three main intended outcomes:1) Building Friendships2) Increasing Self-Acceptance 3) Advocacy - We don't just want to be a community that enables autistic young people to develop meaningful friendships, we want to create a movement that will have a positive influence on autistic young people across the UK.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG AUTISTIC YOUNG PEOPLE (DIAGNOSED OR SUSPECTED) WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING AUTISTIC BY:RUNNING AN ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR AUTISTIC YOUNG PEOPLE, WHICH FOCUSES ON:• ENABLING YOUNG PEOPLE TO CREATE NEW FRIENDSHIPS• IMPROVING THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING• GIVING YOUNG PEOPLE THE CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS TO MEET THEIR GOALS AND ASPIRATIONSEDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS ABOUT AUTISM, INTERNET SAFETY AND OTHER TOPICS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY;PROMOTING THE VIEWS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND BOTH ADVOCATING FOR THEM, AND PROVIDING THEM WITH THE KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS TO BE ABLE TO ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES;SUPPORTING OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO CREATE AND DEVELOP GROUPS/ ACTIVITIES FOR AUTISTIC YOUNG PEOPLE, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND ONLINE;RUNNING OTHER PROJECTS, CAMPAIGNS AND ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE PRIORITIES AND NEEDS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.RUNNING FACE TO FACE SOCIAL GROUPS AND ACTIVITIES AROUND THEIR INTERESTS.

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £563,272 from £244,212 in the prior year, resulting in a net income of £62,203 compared to a net expenditure previously. Total charity funds at year-end were £210,621, with unrestricted reserves standing at £50,114, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months of general expenditure.

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.

• 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
• 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)

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 29/04/2026, 88 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 18/05/2024, 108 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 23/02/2023, 23 days after the 31/01/2023 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 — Spectrum Gaming (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gareth Antony Howechair
• Alison Egerton
• Melanie Greta Harrison · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SPECTRUM CAMBRIDGE.

• SPECTRUM CAMBRIDGE income £269k
• 'SPECTRUM WASP' income £372k
• AUTISM VENTURES income £871k
• SPECTRUM PEOPLE income £360k
• AUTISM SPECTRUM CONNECTIONS CYMRU income £547k
• STOWMARKET ASD SATURDAY CLUBS income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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