COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD

Registered charity 1099220 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of community transport facilities to the Disabled,old,infirm and socially excluded

Objects

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND AND ITS ENVIRONS HO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH A SERVICE BECAUSE OF A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE AND SAFE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES.

Area of benefit: CITY OF SUNDERLAND

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£450k

Latest spending

£450k

Registered

2003

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £103 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £231,969. The trustees acknowledge that the charity's future funding streams are susceptible to government priorities and oil price fluctuations, noting that the continuance of funding support is outside the charity's control.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months average total expenditure (held: £232k)

“The general reserve should be sufficient to cover up to a maximin of three months average total expenditure. The trustee's quantify three months expenditure to be around £108,949.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The trustees are related parties of the Company and no transactions were entered into between the trustees and the Company during the year.

“The trustees are related parties of the Company and no transactions were entered into between the trustees and the Company during the year.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

CHARLES EDMUND CHRISTOPHER
Geoffrey Moon
PETER WOOD

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£450k	£450k
31/03/2024	£383k	£405k
31/03/2023	£341k	£354k
31/03/2022	£389k	£415k
31/03/2021	£428k	£319k

Common questions

Is COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £103 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £231,969. The trustees acknowledge that the charity's future funding streams are susceptible to government priorities and oil price fluctuations, noting that the continuance of funding support is outside the charity's control. 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	04/02/2022	£10k	Buy and Bite

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
MOTABILITY	1	£1k

Charities like this

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

WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.5m
EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
SLOUGH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT & SHOPMOBILITY income £561k
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA income £1.2m
RUTLAND HOUSE COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD	£450k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED FY2025	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION FY2025	£162k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FY2025	£2.0m	—	—	below	—	noted
SLOUGH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT & SHOPMOBILITY FY2025	£561k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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