THE TISBURY AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY MINIBUS LTD

Registered charity 1085583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TISBUS

Wheelchair accessible community transport serving twenty-two villages and hamlets in South West Wiltshire and East Dorset.

Objects

"TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE INHABITANTS OF TISBURY AND DISTRICT IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, YOUTH OR DISABILITY."

Area of benefit: THE INHABITANTS OF TISBURY AND DISTRICT.

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£41k

Latest spending

£44k

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the company reported a loss of £2,646 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a profit of £5,975 in the prior year. Net assets decreased from £111,705 to £109,059, and the company is exempt from statutory audit requirements under the small companies regime.

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.

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £6,911 — grants £6,911 (2); 17% of the £40,986 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £6,711 — grants £6,711 (2); 16% of the £42,750 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 14
Government income: £8,813 — grants £8,813 (2); 25% of the £35,230 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04014172 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

FORDHAM, Anthony John — director, appointed 30/11/2025on trustee list
LIDDELL, Charles David Andrew — director, appointed 30/11/2025on trustee list
SAMPSON, Sandra — director, appointed 21/08/2023on trustee list
LADBROOK, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/08/2023not on trustee list
RALPHS, Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 24/07/2019on trustee list
WALTERS, Keith — director, appointed 03/08/2016on trustee list
MCLAREN, Donald Edmund Gower — director, appointed 05/12/2011on trustee list
RALPHS, Elizabeth Anne — secretary, appointed 24/07/2019

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

sandra Sampsonchair
Anthony John Fordham
Charles David Andrew Liddell
Elizabeth Anne Ralphs
Keith Walters
MAJOR Donald McLaren
Susie Ladbrook

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£41k	£44k
31/03/2024	£43k	£37k
31/03/2023	£35k	£41k
31/03/2022	£26k	£38k
31/03/2021	£29k	£31k

Common questions

Is THE TISBURY AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY MINIBUS LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the company reported a loss of £2,646 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a profit of £5,975 in the prior year. Net assets decreased from £111,705 to £109,059, and the company is exempt from statutory audit requirements under the small companies regime. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/07/2007	£12k	New Minibus Project

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON	1	£13k

Charities like this

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

EXMOUTH AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £85k
MERSEYCARE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £1.9m
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE income £248k
GOSFORTH AND JESMOND COMMUNITY MINIBUS income £82k
THE DOWNDERRY AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY BUS ASSOCIATION income £26k
HILLINGDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £573k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE TISBURY AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY MINIBUS LTD	£41k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
EXMOUTH AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP FY2026	£85k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
MERSEYCARE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD FY2025	£1.9m	£70,833	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE FY2025	£248k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
GOSFORTH AND JESMOND COMMUNITY MINIBUS FY2026	£82k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE DOWNDERRY AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY BUS ASSOCIATION FY2025	£26k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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