Time Specialist Support

What Time Specialist Support does

Time Specialist Support Limited is a privately held, UK-registered autism support agency founded by Tori Houghton, a Speech and Language Therapy professional. The company is headquartered in Salford (Greater Manchester) and operates exclusively in the Manchester, Salford, and Stockport area, serving families of children and young people on the autism spectrum. There is no parent company, no external venture or institutional funding, and no public listing; governance appears limited to a small Board of Directors that approved a Modern Slavery Statement in September 2024.

The firm's core offering is a bespoke, one-to-one befriending service in which trained support workers accompany autistic young people to community activities or specialist activities. Workers are matched to service users on interests, availability, and gender, and the company complements the matching process with customized social stories and visual resources that prepare children for sessions. The firm also runs its own recruitment, vetting (enhanced DBS), and training pipeline, requiring at least two trial sessions with experienced team members before a worker accompanies a service user independently. No proprietary technology platform underpins the service; delivery is staff-led and the technology stack consists of a WordPress-based website and standard social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).

Time Specialist Support reaches families directly through its website and community networks, conducts home visits to assess needs, and markets services through organic social and sponsorships such as Aukids Magazine. Revenue is generated via professional-services fees for support sessions; pricing is not publicly disclosed, but support workers are paid £12.75–£15 per hour, implying hourly rates in the low-twenties GBP or above for end-customers. The firm has 51–100 employees, is bootstrapped and founder-led, and shows no evidence of acquisitions, external capital, or geographic expansion beyond Greater Manchester.

Name

Time Specialist Support

Legal name

Time Specialist Support Limited

Website

https://time-specialist-support.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Time Specialist Support is a private, founder-led UK agency providing one-to-one befriending and community-access support for autistic young people and their families in the Manchester, Salford, and Stockport area, delivered via trained, DBS-checked support workers without any proprietary technology platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Worsley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Befriending and Support Services: Time Specialist Support generates revenue by providing bespoke befriending services where support workers accompany autistic young people and their families to access community activities or specialist activities. The company carefully matches service users with support workers based on interests, availability, and gender. Revenue is derived from service fees for these support sessions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Time Specialist Support provides a bespoke, one-to-one befriending service in which carefully matched, DBS-checked support workers accompany autistic young people to community or specialist activities. The service is tailored to each child's interests, availability, and gender preferences, and is supplemented by customized social stories and visual resources that help prepare children for sessions and reduce anxiety. Operations are delivered directly to families across the Manchester, Salford, and Stockport area of Greater Manchester.

Product overview

Time Specialist Support operates as a single, unified service model offering autism-specific befriending support for young people and their families. The core offering consists of a personalized one-to-one befriending service where matched support workers accompany autistic individuals to community and specialist activities. This is complemented by social stories and visual resources to prepare children for sessions. The company also maintains its own recruitment and training pipeline for support workers, ensuring all staff hold enhanced DBS clearance and complete autism-specific training before placement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Befriending Service A personalised one-to-one befriending service in which trained, DBS-checked support workers accompany autistic young people to access community or specialist activities. Workers are carefully matched to each service user based on interests, availability, and gender, with flexible scheduling including after-school, weekend, and holiday sessions. The service is delivered to families in the Manchester, Salford, and Stockport area of Greater Manchester.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Aukids MagazineminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTime Specialist Support sponsors Aukids Magazine, a quarterly magazine designed to give impartial, fun, practical advice for parents of young children on the autism spectrum. This partnership provides marketing exposure to the target customer base of families with autistic children.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• HACS (Hillingdon Autistic Care and Support): Hillingdon Autistic Care and Support is a small UK charity providing bespoke support services for autistic children and young people and their families, closely mirroring Time Specialist Support's autism-specific befriending and respite model in a different London-area geography.
• Autism Initiatives: Autism Initiatives is a UK charity delivering person-centred support and community-based services for autistic children and adults across multiple regions. It overlaps directly with TSS on autism-specific, community-access support delivered by trained support workers.
• Ambitious about Autism: Ambitious about Autism is a UK charity focused on education and community outcomes for autistic children and young people. While its core is education (TreeHouse School), its community services and youth programmes overlap with TSS's befriending and family-respite offering.

Broad incumbents

• National Autistic Society: The National Autistic Society is the UK's largest autism-specialist charity, offering information, advice, education, and support services nationally. It is a broad incumbent in the same mission space as Time Specialist Support, with significantly greater scale and brand reach.
• United Response: United Response is a large UK charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health needs through personalised support services. As a broad national provider of community-based support, it competes for the same family and local-authority commissioning budgets as TSS.
• Dimensions UK: Dimensions is a major UK provider of person-centred support for people with learning disabilities and autism, including community access and family respite. It is a broad incumbent competing for similar local-authority-commissioned packages in the autism space.
• Lifeways: Lifeways is one of the UK's largest providers of specialist support for adults and children with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs. It is a broad incumbent offering overlapping supported-living and community access services nationally.
• Voyage Care: Voyage Care is a UK-wide provider of residential and community support for people with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs. It competes for local authority and personal-budget funded service users in the same autism support category as TSS.
• Swanton Care & Community: Swanton Care & Community is a UK provider of supported living and community-based services for adults and children with autism and learning disabilities. It overlaps with TSS on community-access and personal-budget support delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/time_specialist
• Facebookfacebook.com/TimeSpecialistSupport
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/time-specialist-support-limited
• Instagraminstagram.com/time_specialist_support

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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