OSWESTRY COMMUNITY ACTION

Registered charity 1063319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIAL-A-RIDE, HELPMATES, OSCIP, OSWESTRY AND DISTRICT HELPMATES, OSWESTRY AND DISTRICT HELPMATES LIMITED, SHOPMOBILITY

Oswestry Community Action operates in Oswestry and the surrounding area. It acts to help those individuals in the community in need through its 6 main service areas of:Community TransportVolunteeringArtsCareShopmobilityIT and Learning

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £172,308, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £167,000 (equivalent to three months of service expenditure). The charity reported a net incoming resource of £33,902 for the year, despite noting that operational costs have increased with little or no rise in funding.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oswestry Community Action, Qube (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• Heather Noblechair
• Charles Brotherton
• Hilary Margaret Rees
• John Duffus
• Richard Amos
• Stephen Drinnan
• Stephen Wilcox

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

Operates in: Denbighshire · Powys · Shropshire · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).