KEEP MOBILE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO

Registered charity 1174433 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEEP MOBILE

The charity provides transport for residents of Berkshire who are unable to use main stream public transport due to disability or long term illness.Provide group transport for any community group based in the county.Provide day trips for those people that are lonely in the county.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FACILITIES IN THE AREA THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AREA OF BERKSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES FOR PEOPLE (AND THEIR CARERS) WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE ELDERLY, POOR OR DISABLED OR THOSE LIVING IN ISOLATED AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NO ADEQUATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITIES.

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wokingham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£442k

Latest spending

£484k

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds have been significantly reduced due to increasing operational costs, resulting in a net expenditure of £41,253 for the year. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue, although it faces challenges in securing a permanent base and funding future vehicle replacements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to cover potential redundancy costs (reserves figure: £109k)

“The trustees aim to maintain free reserves sufficient to cover potential redundancy costs” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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Conflicting interests
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Investment
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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
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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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 26
Government income: £237,812 — contracts £73,182 (4), grants £164,630 (23); 54% of the £442,461 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 26
Government income: £213,389 — contracts £68,091 (3), grants £145,298 (23); 49% of the £436,977 total gross income on the same return

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

Volunteers: 26
Government income: £193,256 — contracts £62,417 (4), grants £130,839 (21); 47% of the £414,509 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DOUGLAS CHRISTOPHER SOUTHWICK
GISELA OLWYN SHARPE
IAN WILLIAM URQUHART
Robert Kingswell
Timothy Hanson

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£442k	£484k
31/12/2024	£437k	£500k
31/12/2023	£415k	£428k
31/12/2022	£379k	£404k
31/12/2021	£308k	£348k

Common questions

Is KEEP MOBILE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds have been significantly reduced due to increasing operational costs, resulting in a net expenditure of £41,253 for the year. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue, although it faces challenges in securing a permanent base and funding future vehicle replacements. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds KEEP MOBILE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KEEP MOBILE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO as a grant recipient include WOKINGHAM LIONS CLUB (CIO), THE EARLEY CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
WOKINGHAM LIONS CLUB (CIO)	FY2025	£6k
THE EARLEY CHARITY	FY2024	£2k	Applications
THE EARLEY CHARITY	FY2023	Unverified read£2k	Applications

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	28/01/2022	£10k	Bus Replacement
UK government	24/08/2020	£9k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	30/04/2020	£2k	Shopping collection service

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON	1	£13k
THE ALLEN LANE FOUNDATION	1	£4k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP.

OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k
BISHOP'S STORTFORD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO income £86k
PEMBROKESHIRE VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT income £298k
BRIDGNORTH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £58k
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE income £248k
FACT Community Transport income £872k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
KEEP MOBILE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO	£442k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP FY2025	£100k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BISHOP'S STORTFORD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT CIO FY2026	£86k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PEMBROKESHIRE VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT FY2025	£298k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BRIDGNORTH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP FY2025	£58k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE FY2025	£248k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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