THE CHIPPENHAM AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR THE DISABLED SOCIETY

Registered charity 277534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHIPPENHAM AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR THE DISABLED

Raising funds to purchase, hire and operate a vehicle or vehicles for transporting aged and/or disabled persons within the area of benefit.Promoting and developing a new or improved life for such disabled persons who through no fault of their own are more or less housebound.

Objects

A) PURCHASING HIRING AND/OR OPERATING A VEHICLE OR VEHICLES FOR TRANSPORTING AGED AND/OR DISABLED PERSONS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. B) PROVIDING AT THE COMPLETE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES IN THE INSTANCE AND LATER WHEN FORMED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DEED THE COMMITTEE ASSISTANCE TO MAKE A NEW OR AN IMPROVED LIFE FOR DISABLED PERSONS WHO BY REASONS OF THEIR DISABILITIES ARE RESTRICTED OR NEARLY SO TO A LIFE IN THEIR HOMES OR CAN IF ASSISTED COMMENCE OR RESUME A LIFE IN THEIR HOMES OR CAN IF ASSISTED COMMENCE OR RESUME A LIFE IN THEIR HOME ON DISCHARGE FROM A HOSPITAL OR OTHER INSTITUTION.

Area of benefit: AN AREA WITHIN 40 MILES OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF CHIPPENHAM.

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £7,630 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing total unrestricted funds to £235,545. The trustees consider these reserves adequate to meet charitable objectives for the foreseeable future. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were identified in the filing.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bryan Martyn Peelchair
• Barrie Sinclair
• Desna Barbara Allen
• Jennifer Mary Budgell
• Matthew John Kirby
• Robin Featherstone

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 OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP.

• OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k
• EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE income £65k
• CHIPPENHAM LINK income £70k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
• CT4N CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.6m
• BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £320k

Side by side with its peers

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