AUTISM PLUS LIMITED

Registered charity 518591 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THORNE HOUSE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY LTD, THORNE HOUSE SERVICES FOR AUTISM, THORNE HOUSE SERVICES FOR AUTISM LTD

The charity provides Residential and Supported Living services for adults with autism and other disabilities. Other key associated services includes Adult Learning, Employment and Training Programs, and Social Enterprises.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIALCARE, WELFARE AND EDUCATION OF THOSE AFFECTED BY AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND/OR ANY OTHER DISABILITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £92,187 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £2,912,285. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,469,911, which is below the stated policy target of six months' operating costs estimated at £6,222,916. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02098193 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MCNEICE, Jane Susan — director, appointed 05/04/2024on trustee list
• FLETCHER, Matthew James — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• BOOR, Richard Lindsay — director, appointed 14/11/2023on trustee list
• SCOON, Francis Anthony — director, appointed 14/11/2023on trustee list
• TYERMAN, Peter Frank — director, appointed 09/11/2020on trustee list
• ALLEN, Christopher John — director, appointed 03/07/2018on trustee list
• FLETCHER, Stephen — director, appointed 01/12/2015on trustee list
• LINDSAY, Charles David — director, appointed 04/10/2006on trustee list
• BRIGGS, Peter John — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £625k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Autism Plus Limited — Registered, 19 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 09/11/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Autism Plus - York and North Yorkshire: Requires improvement (08/02/2023) · CQC record
• Autism Plus: Good (02/10/2018) · CQC record
• Ings Plus: Good (06/08/2022) · CQC record
• Thorne House: Good (25/07/2024) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES LINDSAYchair
• Christopher John Allen
• Francis Scoon
• Jane Susan McNeice
• Matthew James Fletcher
• PETER JOHN BRIGGS
• Peter Tyerman
• Richard Boor
• Stephen Fletcher

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

Operates in: 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 AUTISM HAMPSHIRE.

• AUTISM HAMPSHIRE income £7.1m
• EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LIMITED income £20.9m
• Autism Unlimited Limited income £15.6m
• THE AUTISM TRUST LIMITED income £61k
• LEEDS AUTISM SERVICES income £2.1m
• LETS UNITE FOR AUTISM LIMITED income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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