BOSTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1110099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCT

Boston Community Transport is membership-based and for people unable to use or have limited access to public transport. We assist our members with journeys they may not be able to make such as: Medical appointments, opticians, physiotherapists, chiropodists, shopping, visiting family/friends, attending community activities, one-off or regular trips including the library, post office or chemist.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH INHABITANTS OF BOSTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH SERVICE BECAUSE OF AGE, SICKNESS, DISABILITY, POVERTY, OR BECAUSE OF A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE AND SAFE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES. 2. TO RELIEVE THE DISABLED AND THE ELDERLY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF WHEELCHAIRS AND SIMILAR EQUIPMENT SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: BOSTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Boston, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £106,545, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months' running costs (£18,914). The filing confirms that the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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
• 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 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05140621

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.

• LEMON, David Walter — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• LUNN, Jason Paul — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• GREEN, Mick — director, appointed 02/08/2022not on trustee list
• HARRISON, Lyn — director, appointed 02/08/2022on trustee list
• BERNARD, George — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Bernardchair
• David Lemon
• Jason Lunn
• John Blackwell
• Lyn Harrison
• Michael Green

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £320k
• OUR BUS BARTONS LIMITED income £47k
• BRIDGNORTH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £58k
• BASILDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD income £391k
• ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT WEST SOMERSET income £511k
• HALTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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