Beat Autism
Charity number 1167456
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2025
Beat Autism
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' report | 2 to 4 |
| Examiner's report | 5 |
| Receipts and payments account | 6 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 7 |
| Notes to the accounts | 8 to 9 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Beat Autism
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2025
Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Robert Eaton Chairman Claire Blakemore David Bell John Firth Ian Orange Charity number 1167456 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Bankers 30 Riverdale Avenue National Westminster Bank plc Stanley Wakefield City Branch Wakefield 56 Westgate WF3 4LF Wakefield WF1 1XF
Independent examiner
Simon Bostrom FCIE West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
Structure, governance and management
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 3 June 2016 and is governed by a constitution as amended 6 April 2023.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the trustees at a duly convened meeting.
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Beat Autism
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
To relieve the needs of autistic children, their parents, families and carers by all or any of the following means:
1) Carrying out training sessions for parents and carers that give them an understanding of autism as well as strategies to deal with communication, sensory and behavioural issues and sleep.
2) Delivering family activities for autistic children, their siblings and their parents/carers in a safe environment that will enhance their skills and give them the opportunity to try new play activities and make friendships.
The charity's main activities
Over the year we have offered 1:1 crisis support, over the phone and face to face. Support at school meetings Supporting parents through parental request for statuary assessment Supporting parents with mediation Support with hospital appointments Combined Lego and gaming into a (youth group) Pre-school stay and play Joint support work with Social care, Early support Hub, and other charities. Holiday Clubs Monthly craft and sensory group. Parent’s drop in cuppa and chat group
Public benefit statement
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.
Achievements and performance
Another extremely busy year for the charity, with more referrals put forward of parents in crisis due to failing and wrong school placement, provision failures and lack of SEN provisions.
Unfortunately, we still have waiting lists for people to access the services that the charity offer. This is due to the high volume of parents needing help and the capacity that the current volunteers can provide.
We have supported with more parental requests for statutory assessment than any previous year, which has led to more mediations due to families being refused.
We have been lucky enough to start working with one of the local family hubs. We have therefore moved our youth group and parent support group to the new location.
The youth group is great and the young people are leading this group and making it into the group that they want it to be. Since the location move, the young people have asked to rename the group to the amount of outdoor space that they have to be called Autism Explorers.
All of our groups are consistently offering support to the families that need it.
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Beat Autism
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £27,483, including net payments of £8,083 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £19,400 on restricted funds.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £66,064.
Beat Autism policy is to hold a 12-month reserve to ensure that the children that we support have consistency in all the activities that we offer.
Approved by the board of trustees on 02/03/2026
Robert Eaton (Trustee)
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Beat Autism
Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Beat Autism
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. 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 examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
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.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
04/03/2026
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Beat Autism
Receipts and payments account
for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Notes 2025 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 8,559 Bonus ball 11,560 Shop income 534 Gaming and Lego Club subs 1,338 Raffles and bingo 220 Events and fundraising 4,802 Other income 126 Total receipts 27,139 Payments Freelance and sessional staff 26,965 Bonus ball pay out 4,060 Gaming and other group expenses 5 Soft play expenses - Stay and Play expenses - Mums group expenses 4 Clothing - Insurance 614 Independent examination of accounts 594 Raffle and bingo expenses 25 Events, parties and fundraising expenses 216 Office expenses and rent 2,139 Postage 191 Phone and internet - Stationery and resources 409 DBS checks and training - Tax - Travel expenses - Other expenses - Total payments 35,222 Net receipts / (payments) (8,083) Fund balances brought forward 74,147 Fund balances carried forward (3) 66,064 |
2025 Restricted funds £ 1,125 - - - - - - 1,125 12,385 - 1,772 - 2,646 1,505 - - - - - - - 262 - 1,955 - - - 20,525 (19,400) 29,246 9,846 |
2025 Total funds £ 9,684 11,560 534 1,338 220 4,802 126 28,264 39,350 4,060 1,777 - 2,646 1,509 - 614 594 25 216 2,139 191 262 409 1,955 - - - 55,747 (27,483) 103,393 75,910 |
2024 Total funds £ 41,704 11,756 442 1,387 1,480 4,427 - 61,196 27,300 6,299 762 269 956 291 330 604 567 146 838 2,642 979 375 464 156 4,065 1,485 63 48,591 12,605 90,788 103,393 |
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Beat Autism
Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2025 2025 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 65,964 Cash in hand 100 Total cash funds 66,064 Debtors and prepayments Prepayments Liabilities Accruals |
2025 Restricted £ 9,846 - 9,846 |
2025 Total £ 75,810 100 75,910 2025 £ 256 256 2025 £ 594 594 |
2024 Total £ 103,293 100 103,393 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 02/03/2026
Robert Eaton (Trustee)
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Beat Autism
Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
1 Accounting policies
Basis of accounting
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
Taxation
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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Beat Autism
Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2025
| 2 Grants and donations Tesco grants Lloyds Bank Enfinium National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) Sir George Martin Trust The Bramall Foundation Other donations 3 Restricted funds Balance b/f £ The Bramall Foundation 1,959 Sir George Martin Trust 3,000 Enfinium 1,727 The Bramall Foundation 2,535 NLCF 19,052 NLCF Awards for all 538 Tesco - Cash for Kids 435 29,246 |
2025 Unrestricted funds £ - 500 - - - - 8,059 8,559 Incoming £ - - - - - - 1,125 - 1,125 |
2025 Restricted funds £ 1,125 - - - - - - 1,125 Outgoing £ 1,959 3,000 597 827 12,353 538 816 435 20,525 |
2025 Total funds £ 1,125 500 - - - - 8,059 9,684 Transfers £ - - - - - - - - - |
2024 Total funds £ - - 2,050 19,070 3,000 3,000 14,584 41,704 Balance c/f £ - - 1,130 1,708 6,699 - 309 - 9,846 |
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Purpose of restriction
Fund name Purpose of restriction The Bramall Foundation Towards the costs of providing mental health training. Sir George Martin Trust Towards staffing costs. Enfinium Towards the costs of the Gaming / youth group. The Bramall Foundation Towards sensory equipment. NLCF Two year funding to cover basic costs including room hire, staffing, activities and refreshments. NLCF Awards for all For wellbeing sessions for mums at the parent support group. Tesco Towards the cost of holiday clubs. Cash for Kids For Stay and Play and sensory room experience.
4 Related party transactions
Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
Trustee remuneration and benefits
Sharon Firth is the Founder of Beat Autism and is married to John Firth (Trustee). Sharon provides freelance work for the charity and is paid as agreed by the Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. Authority for the payment comes from the charity's constitution and general provisions of the Charities Act 2011.
| Details of remuneration and benefits Sharon Firth Freelance fees Travel |
2025 £ 35,750 - 35,750 |
2024 £ 24,765 1,475 26,240 |
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No other trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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