POYNTON OPEN HANDS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1023844 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OPEN HANDS, POYNTON OPEN HANDS GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME

Provides transport to hospitals, and GP's, visiting, shopping etc. We also offer a coffee morning facility, weekday mornings, where people can gather.

Objects

To Promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in the area of Poynton, East Cheshire and in particular the advancement of education, the promotion of good health and the distress arising therefrom

Area of benefit: POYNTON ADLINGTON AND DISLEY

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 13/03/2024, 42 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Open Hands Community Transport (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ANDREW DAVID ALLANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Watson
• Eileen Rosemary Lambert
• Jane Veronica Hall
• Timothy Habberley Meadows
• Valerrie Hussein

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Derbyshire · Manchester City · Stockport

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD.

• OPEN HANDS PROJECT SHEFFIELD income £26k
• OPEN HANDS TRUST (LEICESTER) income £566k
• NEWTON ABBOT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £452k
• OPEN HANDS COVENTRY income £346k
• FACT Community Transport income £872k
• OPEN HOUSE SHAFTESBURY income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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