CHIPPENHAM LINK

Registered charity 1067820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHIPPENHAM LINK TRANSPORT

Transport, mainly for senior citizens to medical appointments and well-being activities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POOR, SICK, ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSONS IN CHIPPENHAM BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: CHIPPENHAM

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £1,076,461 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds available amounting to £12,973,620. The charity holds significant reserves in deposit and savings accounts, which the trustees note are held to allow operation to remain effective over the longer term. The primary source of income is donations from service users, while main expenditure consists of mileage expenses to volunteer drivers.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Mary Carterchair
• Barry James Stephens
• Ian Richard Blackwell
• John Oliver
• PETER JOHN KEMP
• Rev John Robert Schofield
• Suzanne Weeks

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEVIZES AND DISTRICT LINK.

• DEVIZES AND DISTRICT LINK income £40k
• MELKSHAM AND DISTRICT LINK SCHEME income £45k
• THE CHIPPENHAM AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR THE DISABLED SOCIETY income £91k
• COMMUNITY LINK - STAFFORD AND DISTRICT income £1.5m
• CHILDREN'S LINKS income £3.5m
• BROMLEY FAMILY LINK income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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