## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 04 2022 31 3 2023 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Autism Aware UK **Other names charity is known by** AAUK **Registered charity number (if any)** 1154287 **Charity's principal address** 49 Moorside Road Werrington **Postcode – ST9 0JF**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Jon Southall||||
||KimberleySouthall||||
||KellyGradwell||||
||Lois Rankin||From 1/10/22||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
March **2012**
1
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust Deed - signed 17/10/2013
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Trust - consisting of 4 trustee’s (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee’s are appointed or reappointed at the AGM in October Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
_To promote the relief of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families, locally and nationally, in particular by not exclusively by:_
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
_(1) providing advice, support and help to families who are connected with ASD and those awaiting diagnosis._
_(2) providing grants and funding to educational institutions to provide educational tools that educate and support people with ASD._
_(3) advancing the education of the general public by raising awareness in all matters relating to ASD.’_
**TAR**
March **2012**
2
In planning our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. Providing advice and support to families who are connected with asd and those awaiting support is still our main focus. This benefits the public as we connect with people from across the country through our social networking platforms.
We have also provided funding to educational institutions who have then used the funds to purchase educational equipment which in turn benefits the public.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** We continue to use our social networking platforms to raise awareness of **these objects (include within** ASD and educate the public by sharing news and stories and giving the **this section the statutory** public a place to interact with each other to share advice. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2012**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
Throughout the year our supporters continued to support us by donating **Summary of the main** via platforms such as paypal giving and individual fundraisers through **achievements of the charity** just giving. **during the year** Due to our supporters continued online support they helped raise thousands of pounds so that we could continue to provide funding to schools / groups and organisations. AAUK continued to provide online support and information and advice to people affected by ASD and continued to providing grants to schools/groups/ organisations.
AAUK held two main fundraising events – one was the successful completion of Rat Race, which was a 20 mile, 200 obstacle mud run, and secondly was was their 10 year anniversary charity ball, which was a big success and celebration of the charities achievements, whilst raising much needed awareness and funds.
## **Section E Financial review**
We aim to hold at least £5,000 in reserves by year end. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Our main source of funding is through our supporters fundraising and our fundraising events when we are able to promote them. Funds raised have then been spent on supporting one of our key objectives of the charity, in providing educational tools and equipment to schools/groups & organisations.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
**TAR**
March **2012**
4
**Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**ed** **on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**’s trustees**|**’s trustees**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Signature(s)**_Jon Southall_
_Kimberley Southall_
**Full name(s)**Jon Southall
Kimberley Southall
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
Chair
Trustee
**Date** 31stJanuary 2024|_Jon Southall_||_Kimberley Southall_|||
||||Kimberley Southall|||
|||
Chair||Trustee||
|||31stJanuary 2024||||
**TAR**
March **2012**
5
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|
|---|---|
|**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|Charity Name
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**DD / MM / YYYY**.
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”).
Autism Aware UK
31 March 2023
1154287
31/03/2023
3-4|
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed: Date:** 16/04/2024 **Name:** Karen Lewis **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body** FCCA
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:**
319a Uttoxeter Road Blythe Bridge ST11 9QA
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**
||**Autism Aware UK**|**Autism Aware UK**|**Autism Aware UK**|**1154287**|**1154287**|**1154287**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2022|**To**||31/03/2023|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,041**
**4,351**
**20,917**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**6,538**
**-**
**18,400**
**1,000**
**-**
**924**
**457**
**-**
**216**
**210**
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**4,440**
**-**
**70,554**
**74,994**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,041**
**4,351**
**20,917**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**6,538**
**-**
**18,400**
**1,000**
**-**
**924**
**457**
**-**
**216**
**210**
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**4,440**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**7,041**||||||**4,050**|
|Fundraising& sponsorship|**4,351**||||||**22,630**|
|Event income|**20,917**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**32,309**||||||**26,680**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**26,680**|
|||||||||
|
Charitablegiving|**6,538**||||||**4,670**|
|Premises costs - rent|**-**||||||**-**|
|Costs ofgeneratingincome|**18,400**||||||**-**|
|Marketing|**1,000**||||||**-**|
|Entertaining0%|**-**||||||**-**|
|Travel & Accomodation|**924**||||||**486**|
|Stationery|**457**||||||**34**|
|Merchandise|**-**||||||**-**|
|Subscriptions|**216**||||||**216**|
|Professional fees|**210**||||||**400**|
|Charges|**124**||||||**123**|
|General expenses|**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**27,869**||||||**5,929**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||**1,138**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**1,138**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**7,067**|
|||||||||
||**4,440**|**-**|**-**||**4,440**||**19,613**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**70,554**|**-**|**-**||**70,554**||**50,941**|
||**74,994**|**-**|**-**||**74,994**||**70,554**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
16/04/2024
3
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank Account
Paypal
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**74,985**
**-**
**9**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**74,994**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**70,534**|
||||**20**|
||||**-**|
||||**70,554**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||||
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
16/04/2024
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|
|---|---|
|**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|Charity Name
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**DD / MM / YYYY**.
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”).
Autism Aware UK
31 March 2023
1154287
31/03/2023
3-4|
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed: Date:** 16/04/2024 **Name:** Karen Lewis **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body** FCCA
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:**
319a Uttoxeter Road Blythe Bridge ST11 9QA
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**
||**Autism Aware UK**|**Autism Aware UK**|**Autism Aware UK**|**1154287**|**1154287**|**1154287**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2022|**To**||31/03/2023|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,041**
**4,351**
**20,917**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**6,538**
**-**
**18,400**
**1,000**
**-**
**924**
**457**
**-**
**216**
**210**
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**4,440**
**-**
**70,554**
**74,994**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,041**
**4,351**
**20,917**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,309**
**6,538**
**-**
**18,400**
**1,000**
**-**
**924**
**457**
**-**
**216**
**210**
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,869**
**4,440**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**7,041**||||||**4,050**|
|Fundraising& sponsorship|**4,351**||||||**22,630**|
|Event income|**20,917**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**32,309**||||||**26,680**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**26,680**|
|||||||||
|
Charitablegiving|**6,538**||||||**4,670**|
|Premises costs - rent|**-**||||||**-**|
|Costs ofgeneratingincome|**18,400**||||||**-**|
|Marketing|**1,000**||||||**-**|
|Entertaining0%|**-**||||||**-**|
|Travel & Accomodation|**924**||||||**486**|
|Stationery|**457**||||||**34**|
|Merchandise|**-**||||||**-**|
|Subscriptions|**216**||||||**216**|
|Professional fees|**210**||||||**400**|
|Charges|**124**||||||**123**|
|General expenses|**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**27,869**||||||**5,929**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||**1,138**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**1,138**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**7,067**|
|||||||||
||**4,440**|**-**|**-**||**4,440**||**19,613**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**70,554**|**-**|**-**||**70,554**||**50,941**|
||**74,994**|**-**|**-**||**74,994**||**70,554**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
16/04/2024
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank Account
Paypal
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**74,985**
**-**
**9**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**74,994**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**70,534**|
||||**20**|
||||**-**|
||||**70,554**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
16/04/2024
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