Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Charity number 1172753
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2024
Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
| Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| Trustees' report | 2 to 23 |
| Examiner's report | 24 |
| Receipts and payments account | 25 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 26 |
| Notes to the accounts | 27 to 29 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024
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 | Dates |
| Geoff Winnard | Chair | |
| Catharine Worsley Tomlinson | Treasurer | |
| Lorna Gray | ||
| Nathan Randell | ||
| Lynne Fryer | Resigned 11 July 2023 | |
| Laura Bolton | ||
| Ann McKercher | ||
| Jas Baxter | ||
| Jill Cook | ||
| Charity number | 1172753 | Registered in England and Wales |
| Registered and principal address | ||
| 2 Royd House Way | ||
| Keighley | ||
| BD21 4TY | ||
| Line 4 | ||
| Bankers | ||
| CAF Bank | Virgin Money plc | Shawbrook Bank Ltd |
| 25 Kings Hill Avenue | Jubilee House | Warley Hill Business Park |
| Kings Hill | Gosforth | Great Warley |
| West Malling | Newcastle upon Tyne | Brentwood |
| ME19 4JQ | NE3 4PL | Essex CM13 3BE |
| Independent examiner | ||
| E J Beverley FCCA | ||
| 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) association formed on 25 April 2017 and is governed by a constitution.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
The objects of the CIO are:
The relief of need and the advancement of the health and wellbeing of people of all ages who have an autistic spectrum condition (and who may suffer from related conditions), whether or not formally diagnosed, and their families and carers; in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of support and social opportunities. The advancement of education, in particular, but not exclusively by:
(a) Increasing public awareness of the needs and challenges of people with an autistic spectrum condition (and who may suffer from related conditions) and their families and carers.
(b) By providing information and training opportunities to individuals with an autistic spectrum condition, and to people working with or supporting individuals with an autistic spectrum condition.
The charity's main activities
To relieve people of all ages who are diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder and in particular by the provision of support and assistance to such persons and their families and their carers.
To increase public awareness regarding the problems and circumstances of people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families and carers and to encourage acceptance in the community.
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 and in particular the support of families and children living with autism in the Airedale and Wharfedale areas.
Achievements and performance
See the following annual report
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AWARE Annual Report 2023-24 AWAIE 9(JBEAT "The WAAD event was so good I would pay to attend!"
"I can be myself at AWARE activities with no worries" rfi((111, •J "Community. friendship. tolerance is what AWARE means to me"
What has AWARE achieved this year? Thanks to a grant from c0P Local Community Fund. wo h•ld Veral par•nt car•r craft sessions wlth lunch in Blngl•y and Glrllngton We were chosen as the maln beneflclary of the Ilkley Carnlval 2024 - a major boost for us!! Natlonal Lottery Awards for All agreed to fund two of our resldentlals. allowlng us to gove our young people more opportunltles to have new adventures! We launched our flrst vlrtual Urdu Introductlon to Neurodlvorsity cours• (posslbly a worldwide first?!)
- l only joined a few months ago but it's amazing- so useful and not judgemental-
IMPACT & MEMBER SNAPSHOT 93% 500 1382 93% 13M mal• chlldr•n AWARE 95% 666hmal• 1000 io0/ sn
ALL the parents we asked said they found parent training helpfull io0% Of our chlldren and young people enjoy spendlng tlme wlth AWARE staff ! io0/ Of professlonals thlnk we valu• •quallty and r•sp•ct all chlldrnnlyoung people regardl•s8 ol abllity 97% 97/ Of parents and carers find our newsl•tt•r us•tul (X WAAD att•nde•s said they found tho ev•nt a posltlv• •xporlonc•
THE ACTNITIES YOU HAVE ORGANlStD HAVI HAD A POSITIVE AFFICT ON MY DAUGHTER'S CONflDtN(£ AND SOCIAI SKILLS rHANf YOU ONCE AGAIN SO MUCH FOR LENDING AN EAR- I FEEL PARI OF A COMMUNITY RE%t(uriKs SO GC4X IC* MY MEHT THE NEWSLETTER IS YERY VSEIUL: ALL THE INIO IS IN ONE PLACE AND IS UP TO DATI NIKKI IS 4 SVPERsfAR! I HAD AN ANAZING TINE AT IUNZY. I NADE SONE NEW IRIENDS AND PLAYED T(G 14 15 JOMEWHERE WE C411 JUST niipsri yr! EARLYBIRD PLUS COURSE WIS FANfAsTIC AWARE, YOU HAVE EN AN AMAZING SUPPORT OVER THE YEARSI WE ARE All TRULY BLESSED TQ HAVE THIS DER{l S¢TrPORT GROIP NOTHING LlfE A NICE AEAL OUT IIITH IRIENDS HHIISI PLAYING A NIC£ GAME 018OHIING MY DAVGHTEP HA5 HAD A IOVELY TI Af COOK CLUB AND CAAE OVI BU8BIIIIG 141TH PPIDE AT HEP fiFhTinNt 10
ZOOM MEITINGS ARE IANTASTIC ESPECIALLY HHIN JOINING UP HITH THE SEN 11AM AT BRADFORD THE PAPENT TRAINIK HAS BEEN VERY HE1 AND THE TOOLKIT I HAV£ LEARNT HAS HELPED IITH SUPPORTING AND IIIK)ERST ANDING MY CHILD tHE SIAtI HAY£ BEEI TIRrylll Ir Ai Iirm TfrIIR IJW (I PAKNT i& YJ I ALMAYS l l AHAY WtH AWIQE TO CHAItENCAS AKJ 8t IitH AY (R1 IY CHILD LOYES ST AY & PLAY SESSIONS, HE INTERACTS WTH OTHER CHILDREN TRE IIORE THAN FE HAS WTH CHILDREN IN FXS CLASS OVER THE LAST, ALMOST, TIIRtE YEARS MY CHILD LEARNf 10 RIDE A 81KE, SOMETHING THEY WERE DESPERATE ro DO I LIKE GOING 10 rt4)WING QN GLUB IT'S GOOD TO GO QUT bllTH A GROUP. WE ALWIYS HAVE A GOOP CHAT WE LOVE YOUTH CLVB - IT'S I CHINCE FOR CHIIDREN TO SOCIALISE wifHouf HAVING ro MASK OR Acr A CERTAIN WAY. Ir GIVES PARENfs IHE CHANCE ro BE SUPPORfED AND ro SUPPORr OTHER5 BEING 48LE TO SPEAK TO orHERS GOING THROUGH THE SAME THINGS IS THE BEST IHING ABOUT AWARE ALI OF IIIE PIRENIS WHO AfTEt49ED IHE fiLK AI OUR SCHGOL IBOUT lullsrt IND IW4RI SIID THEY OVND fHE SESSION USIFVI AND THdr rHIY HAVE IEARNf SOMEIHING NEW foDAY
Core values One: 'Being in the Community. Philippa, one of our BEA T Support workers. has been helping shape the luture of sleep support across Bradford and Craven. working with the Better Sleep Bradford group. We were thrilled to be chosen to be part of the Co-op Local Community Fund for a year! We hokl a bigger WAAD than •v•r b•for•. allowing us to . provid• •v•n mor• information and help to parents AND allow mor• oryanisations such as West Yorkshire Police to ¢Jttend and help inform their autism knowledg•! Wo always proud - wlth the h•lp of m•mb•rn - to spr•ad word on what wo do and ehat to peoph about autlgm whllo rawng fund8. tool CarniN•a 12
Core Values Two: 'Valuing the individual. We widened the variety of stalls at our WAAD event to try to reflect the differing needs of our members LO I can just bemeat AWARE activities! SEND io 13
Core Values Three: 'A place to belong and be understood. Thls year. to reflect that some members prefer It to Facebook. we embraced WhatsApp and now have a BEA Tparents. support group where members can chat and support each other We have had an unprecedented number ofposltive comments from our surveys about how our members - both children and adults - value AWARE so much because they have a place they feel they belong., AWARE s sesslonal employees and volunteers are patient. empathetic and have a non- ludgemental approach to working with and supporting all ofour young people and their parents 14
Core Values Four: 'Learning from each other. It has been lovety to see previous BEAT members now helping support and encourage other parents who may be new to autism Our residentials are the perfect chance for our young people to come together. help and encourage each other, learn to spend time with people with differing needs and practise their team work! 66 I have learnt so much from other parents and AWARE staff 12 15
Other 2024 Highlights gome ol our young vmuld Hk• to hP .RE 13 16
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Alredale Shopping Centre. Keighley Ilkley Round Table One Lottery players Bradford City events staff The Hive Keighley College All who have donated via our online platforms Our amazing members who have volunteered at events Members who donated Christmas card money to AWARE Easyfundraising and Give as you Live users Green Lane Primary School Keighley Big Local East Morton GaLI NHS Karen Mitchell & her family Andrew McKenzie. who ran the Ilkley Half Marathon for us Clare Porter and her family. who did a sponsored walk Laura Talbot. who ran the London Marathon for us! Lauren at Spectrum Photography, our WAAD event photographer Members who have kindly donated items for our tombolas Sarah & Simon Pullen and the Caravan Club AWARE staff who have volunteered at events in their own time The Co-op Community Fund and members Ben Phillips & his colleagues at Universal Live Sovereign Healthcare The National Lottery Community Fund & Awards for All Bradford Council The Dickie Bird, Long Lee The ILkLey Carnival Committee VELY MI4GII Thank You! IAAFILY s• M:J(H 16 19
66 I have felt less alone and My confidence has grown since joiniry awre rm not quite s(re l know how I would have got thro(gh it without the support from A WARE 99 20
AWARDS FOR ALL LOTTERY FUNDED IVHS . COMMUNITY FUND 18 21
eo op ROUND ABLE DlItqLUt4lllJJ Sovereign Health Care airedale shopping centre 19 22
Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
Financial review
The net receipts for the year were £9,341, including net receipts of £40,232 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £30,891 on restricted funds after transfers.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £69,866.
The trustees of the charity consider it prudent to keep a certain level of financial reserves to ensure that main operations can continue and to avoid closure if funding difficulties were to occur. They have set the level of reserves at running costs for a period of three months with an additional two months’ salary costs, they estimate this figure to be approximately £64,800.
Approved by the board of trustees on 10/12/2024
Catherine Worsley-Tomlinson (Trustee)
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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 25 to 29.
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 - matter of concern identified
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.
During the year a number of issues were identified relating to record keeping in the previous 2 years. It was discovered that the accounting records for the year ended 31 March 2022 did not agree with reports made to funders for that year in relation to the Reaching Communities grant. Spending of £31,889 from this grant in the first year of the funding (April 2021 to March 2022) had been recorded as unrestricted spending. This has now been corrected with a transfer from restricted funds to unrestricted. In the year to March 2023 there was unreported income and expenditure relating to petty cash. Income of approximately £3,684 and expenditure of approximately £4,577 resulting in net expenditure of £893 was unrecorded and has now been corrected in these accounts. The trustees and bookkeeping staff have worked to ensure previous errors are now corrected and checks put in place going forward.
I can confirm I 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.
E J Beverley FCCA
12/12/2024
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024
| Notes 2024 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 13,155 Fees and subscriptions 19,594 Fundraising 5,468 Bank interest 1,228 Total receipts 39,445 Payments Staff costs 9,134 Travel and other staff costs 192 Volunteer and committee expenses 441 Rent and office space - Administration, postage and stationery 820 Telephone and broadband 511 Insurance - Books, publications and subscriptions 2,114 Independent examination 1,200 Equipment and materials 148 Activities and events 16,129 Health and safety 6 IT costs 837 Business development 172 Training 1,051 DBS checks 253 Bank charges 73 Uniforms - Recruitment costs 15 Total payments 33,096 Net receipts / (payments) 6,349 Transfers between funds 33,883 Net movement in funds 40,232 Fund balances brought forward 29,634 Fund balances carried forward (3) 69,866 |
2024 Restricted funds £ 162,576 - - - 162,576 124,142 1,316 22 1,638 363 1,266 1,130 1,260 - 114 7,239 26 1,282 159 19,449 178 - - - 159,584 2,992 (33,883) (30,891) 101,273 70,382 |
2024 Total funds £ 175,731 19,594 5,468 1,228 202,021 133,276 1,508 463 1,638 1,183 1,777 1,130 3,374 1,200 262 23,368 32 2,119 331 20,500 431 73 - 15 192,680 9,341 - 9,341 130,907 140,248 |
2023 Total funds £ 169,624 12,797 4,824 513 187,758 122,517 1,259 247 1,476 1,010 1,475 1,130 1,655 744 1,548 21,829 - 934 568 22,626 51 116 1,556 15 180,756 7,002 - 7,002 123,905 130,907 |
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Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2024 2024 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 69,583 Cash in hand 283 Total cash funds 69,866 Debtors and prepayments Prepayments Assets retained for the charity's own use The charity retains a full list of all equipment and resources Liabilities Accruals Taxation and social security Other creditors |
2024 Restricted £ 70,382 - 70,382 |
2024 Total £ 139,965 283 140,248 2024 £ 1,394 1,394 2024 £ 1,584 3,471 509 5,564 |
2023 Total £ 129,251 1,656 130,907 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 10/12/2024
Catherine Worsley-Tomlinson (Trustee)
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Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2024
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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Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2024
| 2 Grants and donations Bradford MDC Early Years Grant Ilkley Round Table Lottery Community Fund NHS Pre-Diagnosis (BEAT) Skipton Building Society World Autism Acceptance Day Awards for All Sovereign Healthcare Co-Op Silsden Health Champions Network Airedale Enterprises Donations 3 Restricted funds Balance b/f £ BMDC - Early Years Grant 18,052 Ilkley Round Table 2,864 Jump 506 Lottery Community Fund 39,867 NHS Pre-Diagnosis (BEAT) 38,776 Sovereign Healthcare 214 Skipton Building Society 994 Co-Op Silsden - Awards for All - 101,273 |
2024 Unrestricted funds £ - - - - - - - - - 400 444 12,311 13,155 Incoming £ 9,645 8,000 - 80,000 41,818 4,980 - 2,817 15,316 162,576 |
2024 Restricted funds £ 9,645 8,000 80,000 41,818 - - 15,316 4,980 2,817 - - - 162,576 Outgoing £ 6,795 6,023 506 87,978 44,493 3,847 - 97 9,845 159,584 |
2024 Total funds £ 9,645 8,000 80,000 41,818 - - 15,316 4,980 2,817 400 444 12,311 175,731 Transfers £ - - - (31,889) (1,000) - (994) - - (33,883) |
2023 Total funds £ 13,125 7,474 90,000 43,290 994 1,000 - - - 13,741 169,624 Balance c/f £ 20,902 4,841 - - 35,101 1,347 - 2,720 5,471 70,382 |
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Fund name
BMDC - Early Years Grant Ilkley Round Table Jump Lottery Community Fund
Purpose of restriction
Towards the costs of parent training and running the Saturday Club. Towards the costs of residentials.
To deliver sports themed activity days. Towards salaries and all other general running costs.
The transfer relates to expenses from year 1 of the funding (2022) that were not allocated to the fund.
NHS Pre-Diagnosis (BEAT)
To fund pre-diagnosis support for parents and carers.
The transfer relates to the cost of free memberships provided from this funding.
Sovereign Healthcare Skipton Building Society
Co-Op Silsden Awards for All
Towards the costs of residentials. Towards activity costs.
The transfer relates to costs from previous years not put against this fund. Towards the Cook Club
Towards the costs of residentials.
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Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 March 2024
4 Related party transactions
Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
Trustee remuneration and benefits
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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