The Autism Assistance Dogs Charity

Registered charity 1199343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AUTISM DOGS CHARITY

Provision of training of dogs to help autistic people

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, SAFETY, EQUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM, BY PROVIDING DOGS TRAINED AS AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS AND FOR THE EDUCATION IN TRAINING OF THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM AND THEIR CARERS/GUARDIANS AND FAMILIES IN THE CARE AND WELFARE OF AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOGS AND TO PROVIDE SERVICES, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM AND THEIR CARERS/GUARDIANS 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £220,843 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted fund balances of £634,967. The trustees report that the charity remains sustainable and has undertaken organizational restructuring to strengthen internal processes. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would prevent a proper understanding of the accounts.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Autism Dogs Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Preston — Founder & Principal Consultant (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 6.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tom Wildechair
• Janet Moore
• Jenifer Hamilton
• Liza Woodray
• Luke Stafford
• Matthew Salisbury

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DOGS FOR AUTISM.

• DOGS FOR AUTISM income £866k
• CANINE PARTNERS FOR INDEPENDENCE income £5.4m
• SUPPORT DOGS LIMITED income £2.2m
• HELPFUL HOUNDS ASSISTANCE DOGS income £149k
• HEARING DOGS FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £16.3m
• EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED income £20.9m

Side by side with its peers

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