CHESED HOSPITAL TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1133665 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESED TRANSPORT PROJECT

Provides hospital transport to seriously ill patients and to the close family members of seriously ill patients.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF AGE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, OR POVERTY, OR ILLNESS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY THE PROVISION OF NON PROFIT MAKING COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£31k
Latest spending
£18k
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports total funds of £20,060, which is below its stated policy target of maintaining three to six months of unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees confirming the charity will continue operating for at least twelve months. An independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to attention requiring further disclosure or indicating non-compliance with accounting standards.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserves of the charity, at a level which equates to approximately three-six months of unrestricted expenditure.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 90
  • Government income: £14,696 — grants £14,696 (3); 77% of the £18,996 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£31k£18k
31/12/2024£8k£13k
31/12/2023£19k£14k
31/12/2022£2k£7k
31/12/2021£9k£14k

Common questions

Is CHESED HOSPITAL TRANSPORT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reports total funds of £20,060, which is below its stated policy target of maintaining three to six months of unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees confirming the charity will continue operating for at least twelve months. An independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to attention requiring further disclosure or indicating non-compliance with accounting standards. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CHESED HOSPITAL TRANSPORT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHESED HOSPITAL TRANSPORT as a grant recipient include DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUND.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUNDFY2025£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/01/2025£20kPHONE FLOW
UK government28/09/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund28/01/2015£10kHealing Wheels
The National Lottery Community Fund22/09/2006£5kChesed Transport Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRANSPORT FOR SICK CHILDREN LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHESED HOSPITAL TRANSPORT£31k——below—no doubt
TRANSPORT FOR SICK CHILDREN LIMITED FY2025£170k—0unclear—no doubt
CHESED CHARITY TRUST FY2025£988k—0unclear—no doubt
BASILDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD FY2025£391k—0below—no doubt
EXETER COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION FY2025£132k—0unclear—no doubt
ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT FY2025£371k—0above—no doubt

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