CUMBRIA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 1202350 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a community transport service for the inhabitants of Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness who are in need of such service because of youth,age, sickness, disability, poverty or lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH CUMBRIA WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH SERVICE BECAUSE OF YOUTH , AGE, SICKNESS OR DISABILITY ( MENTAL OR PHYSICAL) OR POVERTY OR BECAUSE OF LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE AND SAFE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES.

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

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Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £38,339 for the year ended 4 April 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Total unrestricted reserves decreased to £351,619, which remains above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £300,000. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting funding is secured via local authority grants.

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
• 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
• 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID DRINKALDchair
• Craig Drinkald
• James Sisson
• Lynne Culley
• Mark Costello

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEARDALE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED.

• WEARDALE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £687k
• FACT Community Transport income £872k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• HARROW COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £443k
• OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k

Side by side with its peers

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