ASHBOURNE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1110204 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide transport facilities for those residents of West Derbyshire, southern Derbyshire Dales focused on Ashbourne and surrounding villages, East Staffordshire and Staffordshire Moorlands (southern Peak) who have difficulty in using public transport because of age, sickness, mental or physical disability, or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services.

Objects

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

Area of benefit: ASHBOURNE 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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £48,747 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £314,730. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and confirmed the use of the going concern basis of accounting with no material uncertainties identified. Reserves remain above the stated minimum target level of £100,000.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buckler Spencer Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05329004
• Trading subsidiary: THE ASHBOURNE LITTLE BUS COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 09364642 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• COOPER, Caroline Ann, Councillor — director, appointed 31/05/2023not on trustee list
• LEES, Stuart — director, appointed 22/05/2019on trustee list
• WATSON, Robert — director, appointed 31/05/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (82% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Anne Cooper
• JANE HARRIS
• Robert Watson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Lees

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Staffordshire

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
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
• COMMUNITY LINK - STAFFORD AND DISTRICT income £1.5m
• ASHBOURNE RECREATION GROUND SPORTS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £449k
• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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