BATTLE AREA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1071961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides regular bus services for the elderly, disabled and residents in rural Rother communities.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF BATTLE AND ITS ENVIRONS WHO HAVE NEED BECAUSE OF AGE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, OR POVERTY, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:- A) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN NON PROFIT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES; AND B) TO ASSIST THE CHARITABLE WORK OF ORGANISATIONS AND BODIES ENGAGED IN PROMOTING THE RELIEF OF SUCH PERSONS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE SERVICES.

Area of benefit: BATTLE

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 the charity reported a net deficit of £7,610 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Despite the deficit, unrestricted reserves increased to £36,435, and the trustees confirmed that current funding levels are sufficient to meet day-to-day commitments.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRYN NEWMAN
• David John Pratt
• Ian Briant Clark
• Keith Edwards
• Marian Barbara Newman

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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