NEWTOWN AND DISTRICT DIAL A RIDE

Registered charity 1005861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-heath, disability, financial or other disadvantage in Newtown and the surrounding area through the provision of accessible transport services

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION IS THE RELIEF OF THE DISABLED, HOUSE BOUND AND AGED IN NEWTOWN AND DISTRICT BY THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORT

Area of benefit: NEWTOWN AND DISTRICT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted cash funds increased from £26,447 to £57,668 during the year, while total funds rose from £97,893 to £203,308. The trustees report that the charity is in a reasonable financial position, supported by school transport contracts and donations, though these contracts are due to end. The charity has no stated reserves policy target and does not disclose any pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Thompsonchair
• Ailsa Pepperell
• Ezma Zhao
• Melvyn Evans
• Michael Alan Reed
• Rex Shayler
• Valerie Howard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wayne Collison

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT.

• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• GRIMSBY, CLEETHORPES AND DISTRICT DIAL-A-RIDE income £100k
• EXETER COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £132k
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
• NEWENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED income £1.4m
• TADCASTER VOLUNTEER CARS & SERVICES ASSOCIATION income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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