ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT WEST SOMERSET

Registered charity 1111116 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AT WEST SOMERSET, ATWS

The object of the Company is to provide a Community Transport service for such of the inhabitants of West Somerset and surrounding areas who are in need of this service because of age, sickness, deprivation, disadvantage or disability (mental or physical), or poverty, or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services.

Objects

For the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship, rural isolation or other disadvantage, in particular, but not exclusively, by providing transport for all community groups and individuals whose needs are not met by conventional transport.

Area of benefit: WEST SOMERSET AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £11,451, increasing its total unrestricted reserves to £550,520. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining five to six months of gross expenditure, estimated at £195,000. The charity reports no restricted funds and confirms that all operations are continuing.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.2 months of spending — in the top quarter 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

• David Raymond Croxton
• Ian Charles Aldridge
• Jean Parbrook · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Dewdney
• ROBERT SEALY JOHN BRYANT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOUTH SOMERSET COMMUNITY ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT income £224k
• WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.5m
• Community Transport South West Ltd income £1.1m
• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SUSSEX income £2.2m
• FELIXSTOWE AREA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £165k

Side by side with its peers

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