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Registered charity (CIO) · Stockton on Tees

Autism Matters

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.autism-matters.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.3m£1.2m
  • 2023£991k£1.0m
  • 2022£759k£737k
Earlier years
  • 2021£546k£508k
  • 2020£368k£302k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF PEOPLE WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM CONDITION, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AND ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS, LIVES OR WORKS WITH SOMEBODY WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM CONDITION.TO PROVIDE PERSONALISED ADVICE AND SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM CONDITION.

Grants received

4 grants · £30,610 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £19,810 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,000
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation · £800

Most recent

  • Masonic Charitable Foundation £8002024-01-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8102023-01-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002020-10-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002018-11-15
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

7y median 8.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 4

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.6 in 2020

67 from 35 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1171140
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Jan 2017
Contact on the register
01642 601262 · info@autism-matters.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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