RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL

Registered charity 1174055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Recycling of freely donated bicycles to give affordable access to fully reconditioned roadworthy bikes, to local children and adults, to enable them to improve their health, increase their opportunities for employment, reduce the cost of their transport, interact within their community, volunteer and fund raise. Training and instruction in road safety is provided both on and off road.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAFE RIDING AND MAINTENANCE OF BICYCLES AND THE PROVEN BENEFITS TO HEALTH OF CYCLING;TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.IN CARRYING OUT THESE OBJECTS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF:1) REFURBISHED BICYCLES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO COULD OTHERWISE NOT AFFORD THEM;2) CYCLE TRAINING FROM 3 YEARS UPWARDS;3) COMMUNITY CYCLING GROUPS; AND4) COMMUNITY CYCLE WORKSHOPS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · 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 reserves increased to £135,341, which is below the charity's stated policy target of six months of income. The charity reported a net income surplus of £51,205 for the year, with total income of £231,486 against total expenditure of £180,281.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 01/02/2024, 1 day 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 — Ride On (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Macintosh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Arwen Baker
• Ian Simmons
• Lee Bingham
• Matt Atkinson
• Michael Walton
• Niamh O'Mahony
• Nicola Wheeler

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Plymouth City · Somerset · Torbay

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAPITAL OF CYCLING.

• CAPITAL OF CYCLING income £181k
• CYCLING PROJECTS income £770k
• THE BIKE PROJECT income £1.4m
• RECYCLING OLLERTON AND BOUGHTON income £850k
• SHROPSHIRE CYCLE HUB income £48k
• LONDON CYCLING CAMPAIGN income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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