SLOUGH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT & SHOPMOBILITY

Registered charity 1096970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of community transport, shopmobility and essential services for such of the inhabitants of Slough and its neighbourhood who are in need of such services because of age, sickness or disability, or poverty or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services. This is met by the provision of a transport service (passengers or assistance to non passengers).

Objects

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF SLOUGH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH A SERVICE BECAUSE OF AGE, SICKNESS OR DISABILITY (MENTAL OR PHYSICAL), OR POVERTY, OR BECAUSE OF A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE AND SAFE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES.

Area of benefit: THE INHABITANTS OF SLOUGH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £17,432 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £171,170. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are significantly higher than the stated policy target of £70,000, indicating a strong financial position despite reliance on reserves to fund operational deficits.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eleanor Cryer MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Holland
• Mercedes Martinez Monroy
• Richard Minegard

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Slough

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (SWADLINCOTE) income £250k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA income £1.2m
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
• SLOUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £821k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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