THE KENT AUTISTIC TRUST

Registered charity 801965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KAT

To develop specialised living services & day vocational/life skill opportunities for people with Autism Spectrum Condition whatever their need. To provide support and advocacy services for people with ASC and their families & carers. To identify and represent all people with ASC in Medway & Kent. To work with people to understand what they want and to stimulate local services to meet their needs.

Objects

(a) to provide assistance, advice, representations and services which will directly relieve the need or disability of autistic people, and people with associated neuro developmental conditions, in Kent; (b) to provide and maintain homes and day care/work facilities in Kent for autistic people and people with associated neuro developmental conditions, providing as normal a home and working life as possible; (c) to help autistic people and people with associated neuro developmental conditions to develop to their fullest potential according to each individual’s natural abilities and interests, and to become as self-sufficient as possible; (d) to provide training opportunities for people wishing to work with or understand more about autistic people and people with associated neuro developmental conditions (in a paid or voluntary capacity) and to increase knowledge of autism and the needs of autistic people and people with associated neuro developmental conditions.

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY OF KENT

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

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, 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 £189,727 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £10,456,676. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free cash reserves were £1,425,065, which is below the stated policy target of £1,542,769 (eight weeks' turnover), due to a late local authority payment. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with a strong balance sheet.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Jeffrey Altman & Company. 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Marathon challenge in aid of Kent Autistic Trust for Monkton Primary head of school theisleofthanetnews.com · 26/03/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02404983

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Kent Autistic Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARRISON, William — director, appointed 28/09/2024on trustee list
• PICKERILL, Dee — director, appointed 25/03/2024on trustee list
• FOSKER, Paul Bryan — director, appointed 12/12/2022on trustee list
• FOSKER, John Edwin — director, appointed 14/08/2021on trustee list
• CONNOLLY, Martin — director, appointed 01/05/2018on trustee list
• AUGUST, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 30/09/2015on trustee list
• WARNER, Gary — director, appointed 25/11/2008on trustee list
• JONES, Helen — director, appointed 08/09/1997on 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 (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Kent Autistic Trust — Registered, 8 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 22/02/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.1% 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).

• The Kent Autistic Trust - 11a Curlew Crescent: Good (21/04/2026) · CQC record
• The Kent Autistic Trust - 52a River Drive: Good (04/03/2025) · CQC record
• The Kent Autistic Trust - 165 Jemmett Road: Good (06/06/2018) · CQC record
• The Kent Autistic Trust - 9 Perrys Close: Good (01/05/2018) · CQC record
• The Kent Autistic Trust - 118 Beaver Lane: Outstanding (01/10/2019) · CQC record
• The Kent Autistic Trust - 14 High Street: Good (28/06/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dee Pickerill
• GARY WARNER
• HELEN JONES
• John Fosker
• Martin Connolly
• NICOLA JANE AUGUST
• Paul Fosker
• William Harrison

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

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 KENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND.

• KENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND income £5.5m
• THE AUTISM TRUST LIMITED income £61k
• AUTISM AT KINGWOOD income £9.8m
• Kent Neuro Therapy Centre Limited income £782k
• SPECIAL NEEDS ADVISORY AND ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £422k
• THE TRANSFORMING AUTISM PROJECT income £201k

Side by side with its peers

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