CALNE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1010088 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Transport for the disabled, frail, elderly, other groups for Social Welfare and recreational purposes including social inclusion to combat loneliness, charitable groups, groups with a common interest and those who are unable to use other forms of transport.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS OR HANDICAP IN THE CALNE AND DISTRICT AREA, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORT.

Area of benefit: CALNE AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES, WILTSHIRE

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £209,326 to £315,916, driven by a net income of £106,591 against total income of £409,879. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Governance costs were explicitly stated as £Nil attributable to unrestricted funds, with total governance/support costs of £54,721.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02625673

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BARNFATHER, Christina — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list
• OWENS, Alison — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list
• STIFF, Leslie Richard — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leslie Stiffchair
• Alison Owens
• Christina Barnfather · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Bennett

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE income £248k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £1.1m
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.