EXETER COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1129560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of transport services to disabled persons including Ring & Ride service, hire of wheelchairs and mobility equipment.

Objects

3.1 TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF ANDVISITORS TO THE CITY OF EXETER AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS OF DEVON (THE 'AREA OFBENEFIT') WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH A SERVICE BECAUSE OF AGE, SICKNESS ORDISABILITY (MENTAL OR PHYSICAL), OR POVERTY, OR BECAUSE OF A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OFADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES.

Area of benefit: DEVON

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £38,909 to £29,363 during the year, resulting in a net expenditure of £19,322. The trustees note that the level of reserves has increased this year relative to their policy target of three to six months' expenditure, although the absolute unrestricted balance declined. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 16/02/2024, 16 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ExeAccess (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANET GALEchair
• BARBARA ELLEN DENNING
• CHRIS PETER NORTON
• Claire Marie Hunt
• JANET MARY NEWTON
• MR GRAMHAM JOHN PROWSE
• PAUL WILLIAMS
• Roy Hill · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon

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 EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION.

• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k
• HALTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £1.1m
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
• TRIP COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £444k
• EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE income £65k
• EAST YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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