TRANSPORT FOR ALL

Registered charity 1063733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT USERS ASSOCIATION, DART, DIAL-A-RIDE AND TAXICARD USERS

Transport for All (previously known as DART) is a pan-London disability rights organisation of disabled and older people. We provide advice, information and advocacy on all accessible transport issues, as well campaigning on all transport issues that are relevant to our members.

Objects

TO ASSIST FRAIL ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE AND THEIR CARERS BY PROMOTING AND ENSURING THE PROVISION OF ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ACCESSIBLE DOOR-TO-DOOR TRANSPORT.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£893k
Latest spending
£577k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a significant increase in free reserves, rising to £359,474, which the trustees confirm meets their policy target of covering three to six months of operating expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £316,371 for the year, driven by diversified income streams including grants and charitable activities, while maintaining a small staff headcount of 11 employees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Fundraising cost ratio: 3.0% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“The charity aims in the long term to have unrestricted reserves not invested in tangible assets to cover three to six months’ operating expenditure.” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to six months’ operating expenditure (held: £359k)
“The charity aims in the long term to have unrestricted reserves not invested in tangible assets to cover three to six months’ operating expenditure.” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Government income: £6,810 — contracts £6,810 (3); under 1% of the £816,230 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Government income: £24,750 — contracts £24,750 (6); 4% of the £631,409 total gross income on the same return

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 14/04/2026, 73 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 09/02/2023, 9 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

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

Total income
£893k
Total spending
£577k
Reserves (reported)
£365k
Employees
11

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£893k£577k
31/03/2024£816k£632k
31/03/2023£631k£530k
31/03/2022£221k£213k
31/03/2021£174k£202k

Common questions

Is TRANSPORT FOR ALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a significant increase in free reserves, rising to £359,474, which the trustees confirm meets their policy target of covering three to six months of operating expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £316,371 for the year, driven by diversified income streams including grants and charitable activities, while maintaining a small staff headcount of 11 employees. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds TRANSPORT FOR ALL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TRANSPORT FOR ALL as a grant recipient include MOTABILITY, TRUST FOR LONDON, JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION, THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST, FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED TRANSPORT.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
MOTABILITYFY2025£335kTravelling with Confidence grant
TRUST FOR LONDONFY2022£150kDecent living standards
MOTABILITYFY2023£122kGrants to Organisations
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATIONFY2025£105kCore cost funding to support policy and advocacy work enabling a national voice of disabled people demanding transport justice
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£90kCore costs
FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED TRANSPORTFY2023£23kAmplifying disabled people’s voices in policy debates
THE OVE ARUP FOUNDATIONFY2022£9kResearch on street design and access for disabled people
THOMAS POCKLINGTON TRUSTFY2025£9kGet Set Progress grants to organisations hosting interns
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATIONFY2023Unverified read£5k

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund03/07/2025£20kTransport Advice Service for Disabled People
The National Lottery Community Fund17/06/2022£10kTransport access for Disabled People
Postcode Lottery26/04/2022£25kCore costs - salaries for staff seeking access to transport for disabled people
The National Lottery Heritage Fund09/02/2022£177k"Campaigning for accessible transport: Our history and our future"
The National Lottery Community Fund18/06/2021£9kTransport Advice for Disabled People
City Bridge Foundation20/03/2017£49kGrant to Transport for All
City Bridge Foundation09/07/2015£90kGrant to Transport for All

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TRANSPORT FOR ALL£893k—0above3.0%no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION UK FY2026£2.2m——above—no doubt
GOSTART COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FY2026£95k—0unclear—no doubt
ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT WEST SOMERSET FY2025£511k—0unclear—no doubt
RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING FY2025£3.9m£100,000 - £109,999—within—no doubt
DRIVE FY2025£25.2m——above—no doubt

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