ROYSTON & DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1127052 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community Transport Scheme helping those without access to public transport to get out and about in Royston and the surrounding villages in North & East Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE COMPANY IS TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF ROYSTON AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES OF NORTH AND EAST HERTFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE 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: ROYSTON

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £146,498 at the year end, an increase from £132,167 in the previous year. The trustees note that while all reserves are unrestricted, they consider up to £158,000 to be ring-fenced for potential relocation or closure costs. The charity does not operate a specific reserves policy.

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 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
• 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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Royston Runners — “Royston Runners has adopted RDCT as its nominated charity from October 2023 to October 2026 raising a fantastic amount of money through vari…” (source page)
• Co-op — “Thank you @coopuk Members for supporting Royston & District Community Transport. The funding will help us provide journeys for those without…” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)
• Hertfordshire County Council — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)
• North Hertfordshire District Council — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire County Council — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)
• South Cambridgeshire District Council — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)
• Local Parish Councils — “Proud to be supported by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group * Hertfordshire County Council * North Hertfordshire Di…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Gerard Joseph Reillychair
• Fiona Ronan Hill · trustee of 2 other charities
• Karen Lee Bonja
• Kathryn Lesley Farrow
• Kenneth Robert Hart
• PHILLIP JOHN ROWE
• Patricia Ann Johnson
• Peter James Worsey

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRIAN LESLIE RACHER 2004 CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE BRIAN LESLIE RACHER 2004 CHARITABLE TRUST income £101k
• ROYSTON MUSEUM TRUST CIO income £153k
• LAWRENCE WESTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £102k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA income £1.2m
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
• COMMUNITY LINK - STAFFORD AND DISTRICT income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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