OpenCharities

This text was generated using OCR and may contain errors. Check the original PDF to see the document submitted to the regulator. This document is also available as Markdown.

← Thinking Autism CIO

2025-03-31-accounts

Charity Registration Number: 1113628

THINKING AUTISM

A Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

For The Year Ended

31 March 2025

THINKING AUTISM CIO

Contents

Page
Members of the Board and Professional Advisers 2
Trustees Annual Report 3-4
Independent Examiners Report 5
Receipts and Payments Accounts 6
Statement of Assets and Liabilities 7
Notes to the financial statements 8

THINKING AUTISM CIO

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS

Registered Charity Name Thinking Autism CIO Charity Number 1113628 Registered Office International House 24 Holburn Viaduct London EC1A 2BN Trustees Karen Julie Charman Anita Ann Kugelstadt Joanne Elisabeth Allman Suzanne Mary Partridge Professor Jane Margaret Wills (appointed 21/11/2025) Independent Examiners Community Accounting Lancashire C.I.C. Foxfields 9 Norley Close Chadderton Oldham Lancashire OL1 2RA Bankers Unity Trust Bank 9 Brindley Place Birmingham B1 2HB

THINKING AUTISM CIO TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT

TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 1 APRIL 2024 to 31 MARCH 2025

Thinking Autism CIO, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (registered charity number: 1113628). Thinking Autism, International House, 109-111 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JA Website: www.thinkingautism.org.uk Email: mail@thinkingautism.org.uk

During this reporting period, the volunteers and employee of Thinking Autism continued to provide support and information to thousands of Autism families across the UK and world, utilising live online events, social media, free publications and person-to-person conversations on social media platforms.

EVENTS

ln this reporting year, our charity undertook only one live social media event detailed below. March 2025: The Oura Ring and ASD: Helping Parents with Data for Tracking Information and Decision-Making.

This event brings our total available free webinars to 49. Members can access them any time. We also provided our members with information about other online events, both free and paid, including conferences in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Europe. We planned a live Parent2Parent weekend event in October, but it had to be postponed due to logistical reasons.

PUBLICATIONS

We updated some of our printed resources, including our membership health care resource list, and had more copies printed to share with professionals and families. We also started a major update of our website to reflect our ongoing and upcoming advocacy work.

ADVOCACY

Our advocacy work in this reporting period focused on collaboration with a group of medical doctors and researchers. With their help, we have made a legal challenge against the long wait lists for autism diagnosis, as well as challenging local authority frameworks and recommendations that we believe discriminate against young children with possible autism and their families. We are awaiting further information on the outcomes before we publish what we have done.

Through these ongoing collaborative efforts, we are also trying to get the authorities to update the NICE guidelines to reflect more current research about medical comorbidities in ASD. As part of that effort, we have reached out to collaborate with experts and autism families in the UK with the goal of a larger advocacy campaign and new publications to accompany that campaign.

FOUNDATIONAL ACTIVITIES

We continued to maintain our very active Facebook accounts, Twitter account, and website. The website receives more than 6500 distinct engagements each month. Our Facebook groups in particular allow isolated families to offer support to one another emotionally, socially and with information, and in total have more than 10,000 engagements per month. We signpost our followers to current research, autism events and other supportive organisations/charities. We responded to many journalist enquiries.

We remained highly responsive to the email and direct messages we receive on a daily basis, providing personalised support and information to anyone who contacts us.

As we have always done, we offered free membership to any who could not afford the cost of membership at €15 a year. We maintained our relationship with businesses and organisations who offer discounts to our members, saving our members thousands of pounds each year. During this reporting period, we gained 9 new members.

We continued our fundraising activities.

Signed on behalf of the board of Thinking Autism by

Joanne Allman, Trustee and Treasurer

1 December 2025

THINKING AUTISM CIO

REPORT TO THE MEMBERS ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THINKING AUTISM CIO

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 as set out on pages 6 to 8.

Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

The charity’s trustees consider an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the 2011 Act, and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility as independent examiner to:

Basis of Independent Examiners Report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the Directions given by the Charity commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items of disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters.

The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.

Independent Examiners Statement

I have completed my examination for the year ended 31 March 2025.

I can confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

12[th] January 2026

Miss Jacqueline Bird F.M.A.A.T.

Community Accounting Lancashire C.I.C. Foxfields 9 Norley Close Chadderton Oldham OL1 2RA

THINKING AUTISM CIO

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
2025
2025
Notes
£
£
RECEIPTS
Grants
2
-
-
Membership Fees
4,070
-
Donations
7,088
-
London Conference
-
-
Roadshows
-
-
Merchandise Sales
-
-
Refunds
-
-
Interest Received
1,667
-
Sundry Income
-
-
TOTAL RECEIPTS
12,825
-
PAYMENTS
London Conference
-
-
Roadshows
-
-
Salaries Costs
22,792
-
Training
-
-
Consultancy & Advice
6,754
-
Marketing
350
-
Research
-
-
Gifts
-
-
Donations
-
-
Just Giving Fees
-
-
Membership Packs
-
-
Membership Fee Refunds
-
-
Merchandise
-
-
IT Equipment (Laptop)
-
-
Website & Software Costs
283
-
Mail Forwarding
102
-
Printing & Stationery
311
-
Postage & Courier Costs
4
-
Travel Costs
-
-
Storage
724
-
Insurance
538
-
Accountancy Fees
495
-
Payroll Costs
244
-
Bank & Paypal Charges
223
-
Sundries
-
-
TOTAL PAYMENTS
32,820
-
Net of receipts/(payments)
(19,995)
-
Cash funds as at 31 March 2024
5
71,035
-
Cash funds as at 31 March 2025
5
51,040
-		 Total
Funds
2025
£
-
4,070
7,088
-
-
-
-
1,667
-
12,825
-
-
22,792
-
6,754
350
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
283
102
311
4
-
724
538
495
244
223
-
32,820
(19,995)
71,035
51,040		 Total
Funds
2024
£
-
4,815
8,372
16,650
-
625
-
675
-
31,137
20,595
-
19,873
96
2,400
-
17
100
-
-
-
380
261
449
271
90
-
-
-
626
552
615
214
501
-
47,040
(15,903)
86,938
71,035

THINKING AUTISM CIO

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITES

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds
As at As at As at As at
31/03/25 31/03/25 31/03/25 31/03/24
£ £ £ £
CASH FUNDS
Bank 18,289 - 18,289 29,377
Cash on Deposit 32,342 - 32,342 40,675
Paypal 354 - 354 928
Petty Cash 55 - 55 55
51,040 - 51,040 71,035
LIABILITIES £ £
Fee for Independent Examination 398 495
Other Accounts Costs - -
398 495

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on the 12[th] of January 2026 and signed on their behalf by:

J Allman

Trustee

THINKING AUTISM CIO

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

1. Receipts and Payments Accounts

Receipts and Payments accounts are statements that summarise the movement of cash into and out of the organisation during the financial year. In this context “cash” includes cash equivalents, for example, bank accounts where cash can be readily withdrawn to pay for debts as they become due.

2. Grants

Grants are credited to revenue on a receivable basis, and all income is allocated to appropriate funds based on the income, and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably. Restricted funds are to be used for specified purposes as laid down by the donor.

Expenditure which meets these criteria’s is identified to the fund, together with a fair allocation of overheads and support costs.

Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received or generated for charitable purposes.

3. Grants Received

There were no grants received during the financial year.

4. Trustees & Staff Costs

During the financial year there were no remunerations paid to trustees.

No employee received emoluments of £60,000 or above (2024: none).

5. Funds Analysis

unds Analysis
Balance as Incoming Resources Balance as
at 1 April Resources Expended at 31 March
2024 2025
£ £ £ £
Unrestricted Funds 71,035 12,825 (32,820) 51,040
Restricted Funds - - - -
Total Funds 71,035 12,825 (32,820) 51,040