NORTH DORSET COMMUNITY ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT NORDCAT

Registered charity 1088567 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORDCAT

Provision of transport for disabled disadvantaged and socially excluded

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO HAVE NEED BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, POVERTY, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY N PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE.

Area of benefit: NORTH DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the organization incurred a net loss of £156,651.51 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the organization has no money and is in debt to HMRC, resulting in an inability to afford an auditor.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 14/05/2026, 103 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK BEER
• Gerald Rose · trustee of 2 other charities
• JANE SMITH
• Nigel Paul Biggs · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAULINE HANNAH BATSTONE

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT income £234k
• OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k
• NEWTON ABBOT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £452k
• ACCESSIBLE PASSENGER TRANSPORT SERVICES LIMITED income £2.9m
• ADAPT (NORTH EAST) income £1.0m
• DISABILITY ACTION GROUP (NORTH DORSET) income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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