UTTLESFORD COMMUNITY TRAVEL

Registered charity 1072529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCT

Provision of a community transport service in the district of Uttlesford

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF UTTLESFORD AND ITS ENVIRONS WHO HAVE NEED BECAUSE OF AGE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, POVERTY, PARTICULARLY THOSE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, OR BY REASON OF INADEQUATE MEANS ARE UNABLE TO TRANSPORT THEMSELVES AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:-(A) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE, COMPLEMENTARY TO EXISTING PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES, WHICH SHALL BE OPEN TO ALL MOBILITY IMPAIRED RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT, 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: DISTRICT OF UTTLESFORD AND ITS ENVIRONS

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 finished the year with a deficit of just over £22,000, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £176,960 to £105,297. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted funds were maintained at a level equating to approximately three to six months of unrestricted expenditure throughout the year. The charity remains reliant on grants from principal funders Essex County Council and H&WEICB, as well as local town councils, to function.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03456224

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DAVIES, Christopher Mark — director, appointed 28/04/2026on trustee list
• SINCLAIR, Bruce Roy — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• EASTON, Mark Nikolas Fulda — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• TOKLEY, Jacqueline Margaret — director, appointed 22/11/2022on trustee list
• BENSON, Felicity Margaret Mary — director, appointed 28/10/2020on trustee list
• SHAW, Ian Campbell — director, appointed 30/09/2004on trustee list
• BIDDLECOMBE, Stephen John Andrew — director, appointed 29/04/2004not on trustee list
• GOODWIN, Janice Mary — secretary, appointed 25/07/2018

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN CAMPBELL SHAWchair
• Bruce Roy Sinclair
• Christopher Mark Davies
• Jacqueline Margaret Tokley
• MR STEVE BIDDLECOMBE
• Mark Nikolas Fulda Easton

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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