Charity registration number.. 1197590
Ascape
Annual Accounts and Trustees Report
For the year ended 31 December 2025

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Contents
Charity Infomi8tion
Trustees Annual Report
2to4
Independent Examinerfs Report
Receipts and Payments Account
Statement of Assets and Liabilities

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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
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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 be￿een 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, alOngs￿e 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.
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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 c￿DIreCtOrS 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 $e¢ured a further five years of ¢ore funding fiom the
National Lottery Reaching Communrties Fund, providing considerable securtty for the
organisation to continue to deliver support to our increasingly vulnerable communrty.
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Trustees. Report for the year ended 31 December 2025
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Total incoming resources in the year V￿re £82.348 {2024.'£74,4941 and net defictt was
£10,50912024-.£12.549 surplus).
Total fvnds at 31 December 2025 were £41,712 (2024..£52,2211 including restricted funds of
£28,41812024-.£39.8111
Ascape reL8ins sufficient lunds in reserve to be able to pay notice to staff as per their
contracts and a nominal sum of £1.000 to cover administration and other costs should the
organisation have to close.
These funds are held in a separate bank such that rf we had any problems with our current
a¢¢ount we could still pay our stsff and Creditors while this was resolved. An amount of
unrestricted funds is also held separately for unforeseen running expenses and for ad-hoc
activities and projects as approved by the Board.
The charty 1$ 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 Y￿1h 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.
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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 V￿th 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..
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A. Recelpts and Payments Account for the year ended 3100¢•m￿r 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$ing
Donations
Ticket receipts
32.883
15,000
8,352
4.950
32.883
15,000
8,352
4.950
24. 132
15,000
4.547
1.700
3,752
3.460
2,800
2,546
1.600
1.600
1.600
4,990
2,451
2,OCKI
2.451
2,000
160
9.236
3,170
3,670
3.764
2, 856
2,225
160
9.236
3,170
Total r•celpts
12.566
69.782
82,348
74.494
A3 Payments
Management and18adershlp
Admin services
HR services
Training
Comms serv￿$
Consu￿ancY
Therapists and facilitators, Counselhng t￿d 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 Pa￿entS
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
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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
9.1￿1
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
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