WALES MOBILITY DRIVING ASSESSMENT SERVICE

Registered charity 1056588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WALES DISABLED DRIVERS ASSESSMENT CENTRE

To provide a high quality mobility and driving assessment service, conveniently accessible to all communities and equipped to meet the present and future needs of elderly and disabled people living in all Wales by enabling them to resume or remain independently mobile

Objects

A)TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS, AS WELL AS THOSE PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED MOBILITY, OR THOSE WHO MAY BE VULNERABLE TO SUCH CONDITIONS. BY REASON OF AGE OR INFIRMITY IN ANY WAY WHICH SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE CHARITABLE IN LAW: ANDB) TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENTS OF STANDARDS OF DRIVING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ROAD SAFETY AND TRAVEL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £235,265 to £221,517, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The trustees note that the charity's future funding is uncertain due to a Welsh Government review, and they have utilized reserves to fill funding gaps for employing staff.

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 5 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dean Alcock
• Jodie Gallagher-Smith Ms
• John Carter
• LINDA HARRINGTON
• Mary Stevenson
• PAUL BREWER
• Tamlyn Palmer

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REGIONAL DRIVING ASSESSMENT CENTRE.

• REGIONAL DRIVING ASSESSMENT CENTRE income £2.0m
• DRIVING MOBILITY income £2.0m
• DRIVE income £25.2m
• THE FEDERATION OF DISABILITY SPORT WALES LIMITED income £1.2m
• OUR CENTRE income £336k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k

Side by side with its peers

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