Charity registration number.. 1197590 Ascape Annual Accounts and Trustees Report For the year ended 31 December 2025
Ascape Contents Charity Infomi8tion Trustees Annual Report 2to4 Independent Examinerfs Report Receipts and Payments Account Statement of Assets and Liabilities
Ascape Charity infomiation Trustees Rebecca Watkins (Chairl - Resigned 31 October 2025 Mark Rixon {Treasurerl Stacey Chilcott- Resigned 23 March 2025 Diane Evans - Resigned 11 September 2025 Max Glock {Young Trustee) - Resigned 25 July 2025 Peter Glock Sarah Orritt Elizabeth Rutherford Mark Samuel Sharna-Lee Raine - Appointed 22 April 2025 Eloise Bladon (Young Trusleel - Appointed 14 October 2025 Janet Susan Tolley- Appointed 24 February 2026 Charlty's prlnclpal addre88 3 Nordons Bfidwrt Dorsel DT6 4DU Independont examlner Hartley's Chartered Certified Accountants The Grove Rax Lane Bndwrt Dorset DT6 3JL Page 1
Ascape Trustees. Report for the year ended 31 December 2025 The Trustees present their report together 1th the financial stements for the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVMES Promoting social inclusion among children and young adults beeen the age of 0-25 years with Aulislic Spectrum Condition IASCI andlor social anxiety, especially living in the county of Dorsel, who are excluded from society or parts of society. as a result of their condition by.. 1. Helping such children and young adults become better socialised and less isolated through the facilitation of peer support and supported socialisation. 2. Supporting carers and families. including siblings, of such young people by providing peer support via groups and family activities. encouraging 5haTing of ideas, re$ource$ and support within and belween these groups. 3. Promoting awareness about ASC and social anxiety and challenging fear and prejudice. Throughout 2025. Ascape delivered our Core pa¢kage of social a¢tivrtie$ for auli$li¢ children and young people, consisting of our bi-monthly Teens Youth Club and monthly club foi the 18-25$, our monthly Family A¢tivty Afternoons. 'Gardens¢ape'. oui weekly after- school gardening club, and 'Musicmakets', our monthly Saturday music dub. We also offered regular activities for families in Weymouth and Portland, our summer music workshop 'You Do Music, and woodworking workshop. Highlights included trips to Abbolsbury Illuminated Gardens. Weymouth Sea Life Cenlre and the Numatic Factory in Chard, the home of'Henry the hooverf. For our growng community of over 1.000 parents and carers continued lo provide our bi-monthly support group in Bridport and a monthly wellbeing session on Sunday afternoons, as well as an expanded series of webinars on key topics, alOngse our ongoing online peer support groups. Ascape was present at a number of local events, including Chesil Youth Pride in June and the Sherborne Classic Car Show in Juty. A Tea and Cake fundraiser in West Bay in June organised by Bridport Rotary and staffed by Ascape volunteers raised £500. The trustees met regularty through the year, provKling the oversight and control necessary to ensure that Ihe charrty's new and existing activities were in line wlh the charitable purposes set out in the Consttiulion, thus ensuring that the Commission's public benefrt guidance continued to be taken into account. As part of the strategic planning process, the Board improved risk analysis and management. Page 2
Ascape Trustees. Report for the year ended 31 December 2025 ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE During 2025. Ascape continued to offer reguLar social activities and peer support for Autistic and socially anxious children and young adults in West Dorsel. alongside information and support to their parents, carers and wider families. Responding to interest in the community, we launched a new regular cookery club for Teens and subsequentty added a session for Teens aged 8-12. In total we delivered over 190 events and activities, and direclty supported over 285 children and young people. We also successfulty piloted a communty outreach project bthich reached 845 children and nearly 300 parents through engagement in schools and communty spaces and events. 2025 saw the launch of Ascape's Youth Forum, a new youth engagement mechanism as a platform for young people to voice their vision and priorities, supported by the Yovth Club's Lead and our Young Trustee. This has increased the representation of young Autistic and socially anxious people in Ascape's decision making and governance. The Board and cDIreCtOrS produced a new five-year Strategic Plan for the period 2026- 2030. Thi$ $et out a tWO•pha$e $lrategy to deepen our work in Bridport in 2026-2028, during which we will investigate the feasibility of widening OUT geographical scope and explore new funding streams. The full plan is available to read and download on our website. At the end of the year Ascape $e¢ured a further five years of ¢ore funding fiom the National Lottery Reaching Communrties Fund, providing considerable securtty for the organisation to continue to deliver support to our increasingly vulnerable communrty. Page 3
Ascape Trustees. Report for the year ended 31 December 2025 FINANCIAL REVIEW Total incoming resources in the year Vre £82.348 {2024.'£74,4941 and net defictt was £10,50912024-.£12.549 surplus). Total fvnds at 31 December 2025 were £41,712 (2024..£52,2211 including restricted funds of £28,41812024-.£39.8111 Ascape reL8ins sufficient lunds in reserve to be able to pay notice to staff as per their contracts and a nominal sum of £1.000 to cover administration and other costs should the organisation have to close. These funds are held in a separate bank such that rf we had any problems with our current a¢¢ount we could still pay our stsff and Creditors while this was resolved. An amount of unrestricted funds is also held separately for unforeseen running expenses and for ad-hoc activities and projects as approved by the Board. The charty 1$ funded predominately through grants, wth the National Lottery Communty Fund and Children in Need providing our core funding. Most of the charity's activities are covered by small annual grants from various IcKal charities as well as supermarket funded schemes. This is supplemented wth the unrestricted funding from the h)cal community and Parental conlribuliong. STRUCTURE. GOVERNANCE ANO MANAGEMENT The charity was registered Y1h the Charty Commi$$ion on 20 January 2022. Our AGM was held on 22nd April 2025. attended by staff, volunteers and members of th8 Ascape community. In 2025, four Trustees left the Board and joined. Shama-Lee Raine joined in April, bringing specific experience of managing Autism services in Bedfordshire and charrty managemenl expertise. Eloise Bladon stepped into the roie of Young Trustee irs October, replacing Max Glock who left to start post-graduate studies. Page 4
Ascape Independent Examinerfs report to the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2025 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31 December 2025. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are resF)onsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 1.the Act°l- I report in respect of my examination of the charity'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 14515llb) of the Act. Independent Examinerfs Statement I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the examination lolher than thal dixlosed below ') which give$ me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. - the accounting records wer8 not kept in accordance Vth section 130 of the Charrties Act., or - the accounts not accord wrth the accounting records.. or - the a¢¢ount$ did not comply wilh the applicable requirements concerning the fomi and Content of accounts sel out in the Charities IA¢¢ounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'lrue and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no ¢on¢ern$ and have Come a¢ro$s no other matters in ¢onne¢lion wth the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. H8rtleys Accountancy Limtied Chartered Certified Accountan1$ The Grove Rax Lane Bridport Dorsel DT6 3JL 10 May 2026 Date.. Page S
Ascape A. Recelpts and Payments Account for the year ended 3100¢•mr 2025 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds Totsl funds Last year A1 Raeelpts The National Lottery Cornrnunrty Fund BBC Children in Need Dors8t Council Youth Fund Dorset Council Local Mliance Group- West Localty Vvessex Water Communty FoundalKJn Dorset Cornmunity Foundation Neighbourhood Fund Dorset Masonic Ca Ccfrop LOCAI Communty Fund Dorset Council Community and Cutture Project Fund LHC Community Benefrt Fund The Three Guineas Tru51 Other small restricted grants Fundrai$ing Donations Ticket receipts 32.883 15,000 8,352 4.950 32.883 15,000 8,352 4.950 24. 132 15,000 4.547 1.700 3,752 3.460 2,800 2,546 1.600 1.600 1.600 4,990 2,451 2,OCKI 2.451 2,000 160 9.236 3,170 3,670 3.764 2, 856 2,225 160 9.236 3,170 Total r•celpts 12.566 69.782 82,348 74.494 A3 Payments Management and18adershlp Admin services HR services Training Comms serv$ ConsuancY Therapists and facilitators, Counselhng td advocacy Activity leadership Offsite activili¥s Venue and room hire Travel expenses ArtSC8pe, Arts and crafts supplies Gardenscape, Garden supplies Misc Refreshments Misc activities and sundries Pension cos13 Website and IT Banking, Accountancy. Insurance, SubscriptK)ns Books and t-shirts 30,354 8.571 405 335 2,881 1,750 8,624 9,8L 9,961 2,715 281 260 32,988 9.479 405 597 2,881 1,750 10.769 10,334 11,690 2,905 281 366 154 51 1,293 1,398 608 750 3,336 154 29,489 4.445 326 309 2,970 262 2.145 528 1,729 7. 136 2,436 2,859 166 149 51 1,047 867 592 703 3,031 1.370 1,239 974 397 1,983 873 16 47 305 154 9,852 82.337 92,189 61.945 A4 Asset and Investment purchases IT equipment 668 668 668 Total PaentS 9,852 83.005 92,857 61.945 Net re¢eiptsllpaymentsl A5 Transfer between funds A6 Cash fund5 last year end Cash funds this year end 2,714 11,830 12.410 13.294 113.2231 1,830 39.811 28.418 {10,5091 72.549 52,221 41,712 39.672 52.221 Page 6
Ascape B. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted fund$ ReBtrictsd funds B1 Cash Funds BBC Children in Need Co-op Local Comrnunity Fund DCF Neighbourhood Fund RourKI S Dorset Counal Loe21 Alliance Group- Wèst Lo¢alty Dorset Masonic Care Dorsel Counal Youth Fund Round 7 The National Lottery Community Fund The Stsnley Smith Hlyticuttural Trust The Barratt Redrow Foundation The Burton Bradstock Art Exhibition The Maurice Fry Charitable Trust Sherborne Classic Car5 CIO Wailrose Unreslricted funds 13,028 2,162 180 1,672 474 8,685 2,020 197 975 560 1.882 715 9.11 13,294 28.418 B2 Oth•r Monetary As8•ts Ftsnd to whlch ais•t b•long• Coit loptlohil B3 Investment Assets Fund towhl¢h 418•t belon Coit loptlonall B4 Assets retsined for th? charity's own u Epson printer ASUS laptop Dell laptop Cruaal portable memory Xiaomi smart phone 2 x Samsung A05 smart phones ASUS laptop National Lottery National Lottery Unrestricted Unreslricied LHC Community B National Lottery National Lottery 218 400 345 17 69 200 399 Fyndtowhl¢h r• Amount B5 Li•bilili¥• Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Mark Rixon 08 May 2026 Signature Print name Date Eloise Bladon 10 May 2026 Signature Print name Date Page 7 s¥1$0¢¢me Il&TI$7