PEMBROKESHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ORGANISATIONS

Registered charity 1148810 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PACTO

We support, develop and represent the Community Transport sector in and around Pembrokeshire. This includes practical assistance (e.g. marketing, volunteer recruitment, training), coordination of projects and funding bids, representation on partnerships, identifying unmet transport needs and working to develop services in response to these needs.

Objects

TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY TRANSPORT WITHIN PEMBROKESHIRE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT IS DEFINED AS "FREE OR LOW COST TRANSPORT FOR PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF OLD AGE, YOUTH, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR FOR PERSONS LIVING IN GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED AREAS WITH NO, OR LIMITED PUBLIC TRANSPORT" • CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES • VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY ORGANISATIONS.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Pembrokeshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £198,032 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total incoming resources of £625,498 and resources expended of £427,466. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £82,831, which is above the stated policy target of at least three months' overheads (noted as £80,000 for 2023). The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• 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)

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.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Motability Foundation — “Recent funding has been provided by the Motability Foundation , the Postcode Lottery , the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Pembrokeshire Count…” (source page)
• Postcode Lottery — “Recent funding has been provided by the Motability Foundation , the Postcode Lottery , the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Pembrokeshire Count…” (source page)
• UK Shared Prosperity Fund — “Recent funding has been provided by the Motability Foundation , the Postcode Lottery , the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Pembrokeshire Count…” (source page)
• Pembrokeshire County Council — “Recent funding has been provided by the Motability Foundation , the Postcode Lottery , the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Pembrokeshire Count…” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “Previous funders have included Pembrokeshire County Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, the Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund,…” (source page)
• Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund — “Previous funders have included Pembrokeshire County Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, the Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund,…” (source page)
• Rural Development Programme for Wales 2014-2020 — “Previous funders have included Pembrokeshire County Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, the Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund,…” (source page)
• European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development — “Previous funders have included Pembrokeshire County Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, the Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund,…” (source page)
• Welsh Government — “Previous funders have included Pembrokeshire County Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, the Welsh Government Integrated Care Fund,…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathryn Bradburychair
• Caroline Wilson
• Michelle Denise Harries
• Professor Charles Musselwhite

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 PEMBROKESHIRE VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT.

• PEMBROKESHIRE VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT income £298k
• PEMBROKESHIRE ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £2.1m
• BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £320k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
• SW HERTS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SCHEME income £246k
• Community Transport South West Ltd income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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