Melksham Area Community Transport

Registered charity 270300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M C C S, MELKSHAM COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, Melksham Community Transport

To provide community transport for the local community area offering transport to disabled people and those with mobility problems, senior citizens, care homes, sheltered housing, clubs, community groups, schools and for special events.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT FOR THE INHABITANTS OF MELKSHAM AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: MELKSHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Causes: Disability · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit. The Chairman's report indicates that the long-term viability of the charity is a concern due to difficulties in obtaining grants for replacement vehicles.

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 3 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Lizbeth Steadchair
• Robert Stead
• Terri Welch · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SOUTH WILTSHIRE income £248k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• CALNE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £410k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THE LEWES AREA income £1.2m
• DAVENTRY AREA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £419k
• FOUR TOWNS AND VALE LINK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £665k

Side by side with its peers

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