Common questions about Ambitious About Autism's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Ambitious About Autism a good charity? +
Ambitious About Autism scores 67 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Ambitious About Autism a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Ambitious About Autism as a registered charity (charity number 1063184). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1063184&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Ambitious About Autism's charity number? +
Ambitious About Autism's charity number is 1063184. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Ambitious About Autism's charity rating? +
Ambitious About Autism scores 67 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Ambitious About Autism have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Ambitious About Autism. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Ambitious About Autism? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of Ambitious About Autism's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Ambitious About Autism's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 3% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Ambitious About Autism. Ambitious About Autism's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 44 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Ambitious About Autism receive? +
Ambitious About Autism reported £43m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Ambitious About Autism's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-07-02). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Ambitious About Autism based? +
Ambitious About Autism's registered contact address is in London (N10 3JA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on disability.
How much is Ambitious About Autism's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Ambitious About Autism's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 44 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Ambitious About Autism's money come from? +
Ambitious About Autism reported £43m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £39m (92%), donations and legacies £2.5m (6%), trading and fundraising events £643k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £5,647.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Ambitious About Autism? +
The register records Ambitious About Autism as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Ambitious About Autism's trustees paid? +
Ambitious About Autism's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Ambitious About Autism previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Ambitious About Autism: The Treehouse Trust.
When was Ambitious About Autism registered as a charity? +
Ambitious About Autism was entered on the register on 2 July 1997. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03375255).
How does CharityCompare score Ambitious About Autism? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Ambitious About Autism's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Ambitious About Autism's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.