BASILDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD

Registered charity 1146853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BDVC LTD

TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT OPTIONS TO PEOPLE WHO FIND PUBLIC TRANSPORT DIFFICULT TO ACCESS DUE TO AGE, DISABILITY OR GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION. TO AID OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AND TO HELP MINIMISE SOCIAL EXCLUSION BY PROVIDING AFFORDABLE MOBILITY ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT. TO PROVIDE WHEELCHAIR LOANS AND TO PROVIDE TOE-NAIL CUTTING SERVICES AT AN AFFORDABLE COST, OFTEN IN CLIENTS HOMES.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE ELDERLY AMD PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE INHABITANTS OF BASILDON DISTRICT COUNCIL BY THE PROVISION OF OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND FACILITIES INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £29,757 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £390,853 against expenditure of £420,610. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £213,279, which equates to 6.08 months of cover against their policy target of nine months. The trustees note that maintaining high reserves is prudent given the uncertainty of future funding and increased costs.

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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07987486 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LAWRENCE, Daniel Mark — director, appointed 20/07/2026not on trustee list
• POEL, Clive William — director, appointed 13/03/2012on trustee list
• POEL, Grahame Leslie — director, appointed 13/03/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLIVE POELchair
• GRAHAME POEL

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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