FOUR TOWNS AND VALE LINK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1084874 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOUR TOWNS AMD VALE LINK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT, FOUR TOWNS TRANSPORT (SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE) COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Provision of community transport services for those who cannot access normal buses or are unable to access educational establishments due to rural isolation. Accessible vehicles providing transport for elderly and disabled clients including special needs school children.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THE INHABITANTS WITHIN SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE 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: SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £79,936 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net funds from £749,550 to £669,614. The trustees report that the charity remains in a strong financial position with healthy reserves, although it is reliant on annual Local Authority funding which creates uncertainty for long-term planning.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Boyd Shaw KENYON
• DOUGLAS HOWAT
• JOHN VICKERY MBE
• Jean Ruby Seager
• ROGER CHARLES DAVIS
• Richard John Whittington
• Robert Alan Colman

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

Operates in: South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA income £1.2m
• CALNE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £410k
• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k
• BRIDGEND COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £303k

Side by side with its peers

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