GOSTART COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1145266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GOSTART

Provision of low cost accessible transport for any who is disadvantaged by reason of age disability or location. We operate Dial A Ride within 8 mile radius of Sudbury and accessible community car/MPV service where circumstances require such a service. We work with elderely people, with people with learning difficulties and with community based groups who are non profit making.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND HELP TO THE PEOPLE OF SUDBURY IN SUFFOLK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE NEED BECAUSE OF AGE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL ISOLATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING NON PROFIT MAKING COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICESB) CONTRIBUTING TO PEOPLE'S MOBILITY AND WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £19,715 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £142,819 to £123,104. The trustees confirmed a reserves policy to hold funds equivalent to three months of operating costs, with unrestricted reserves standing at £57,800. The filing notes that external funding remains important for sustainability and that the charity is optimistic about performance improvements in the coming year.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — GoStart Community Transport (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Philomena Upshon
• David Ernest Martin
• Jonathan Malcolm Kemp
• PETER FINCH

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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