WEST NORFOLK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT PROJECT

Registered charity 1069180 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Demand responsive accessible transport for members of charity

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.7m
Latest spending
£2.6m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has a healthy balance sheet with a substantial cash position and healthy liquidity. The trustees report that the organization has emerged from recent years in a relatively strong financial position, although they note ongoing challenges regarding fleet maintenance and the need to ensure underlying business sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Governance: The document notes a governance issue regarding trustee numbers: 'as we are constituted at the moment following the resignation of Sue Fraser, we have just three trustees which is less than ideal.' However, this is a current state description rather than a past regulatory failure or late filing admission. No other serious governance flags (like regulator engagement or internal control failures) are explicitly stated.
“as we are constituted at the moment following the resignation of Sue Fraser, we have just three trustees which is less than ideal.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: WNCT Limited
“West Norfolk Community Transport Project Limited and its subsidiary WNCT Limited.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£2.7m
Total spending
£2.6m
Reserves (reported)
£2.1m
Employees
70

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (53% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Lincolnshire · Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.7m£2.6m
31/03/2024£2.6m£2.4m
31/03/2023£2.7m£2.6m
31/03/2022£2.7m£2.5m
31/03/2021£2.7m£2.2m

Common questions

Is WEST NORFOLK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT PROJECT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity has a healthy balance sheet with a substantial cash position and healthy liquidity. The trustees report that the organization has emerged from recent years in a relatively strong financial position, although they note ongoing challenges regarding fleet maintenance and the need to ensure underlying business sustainability.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund08/02/2012£10kWest Norfolk Community Transport Workshop Facility Equipment

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WEST NORFOLK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT PROJECT£2.7m—0unclear—no doubt
NORTH NORFOLK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FY2025£439k—0unclear—no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FY2025£2.0m——below—noted
ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT FY2025£371k—0above—no doubt
HULL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (CHARITY) FY2025£1.4m——above—no doubt
LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FY2025£102k—0unclear—no doubt

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