TENDRING COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1074755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide relief to the inhabitants of Tendring District and its environs who have need because of age, mental or physical disability, or poverty and in particular to:Provide and maintain non-profit community transport services and,To assist the charitable work of organisations and bodies engaged in promoting the relief of such persons through the provision of appropriate services.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THE INHABITANTS OF TENDRING DISTRICT 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; ANDB) 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: TENDRING DISTRICT

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £75,191 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £661,321 against charitable expenditure of £605,905. However, the trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £Nil, noting that the main risk to income and expenditure is dependence upon Local Authority Funding from Essex County Council.

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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03719282

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Essex County Council — “Key Partners/Funders Essex County Council” (source page)

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.

• PHILLIPS, Leonard Raymond — director, appointed 26/10/2023on trustee list
• PLACEY, Gina — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Vivien — director, appointed 20/10/2020on trustee list
• CASEY, Dan John — director, appointed 26/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dan Caseychair
• DAVID BOLTON
• Gina Placey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leonard Raymond Phillips
• Vivien Chapman · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION.

• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k
• RYE AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £174k
• BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £320k
• EXETER COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £132k
• THE CHIPPENHAM AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR THE DISABLED SOCIETY income £91k
• OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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