RAKAT CT LTD

Registered charity 1102302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAKAT, RICHMOND AND KINGSTON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT

Providing affordable accessible transport for the local community

Objects

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF RICHMOND AND KINGSTON AND SURROUNDING LOCALITIES 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: RICHMOND UPON THAMES, KINGSTON, GREATER LONDON

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves increased to £537,736, with unrestricted funds at £468,447. The trustees consider the current free reserves of £331,476 to be sufficient, representing 4.8 months of expenditure against a target of 3 to 4 months. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE MARGARET CHARLTONchair
• Caroline Bayly
• Jean-Louis Meath Evans
• Julia Mary Thomas
• Mustafa Ahmet Vahdettin
• STEPHEN BAUGHAN
• Susanna Antonia Bellino

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESGATE CHURCH.

• RESGATE CHURCH income £110k
• THE RECKITT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £82k
• ROYAL TANK REGIMENT BENEVOLENT FUND income £624k
• RJM CHARITY TRUST income £364k
• CT4N CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.6m
• THE ADINT CHARITABLE TRUST income £212k

Side by side with its peers

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