FLEET AND DISTRICT VOLUNTARY CARE SCHEME

Registered charity 283495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNICARE, FLEET AND DISTRICT CARE SCHEME

Provision of transport for the needy and infirm who have no available friends, family or neighbours, to get to doctors surgeries, hospitals, dentists and other medical destinations in the local area.

Objects

TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF

Area of benefit: FLEET AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £2,496 for the year ended March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £24,142. The trustees note that this reserve level is maintained to cover future risks and operational expenses, and no changes to suggested donations were required. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the preparation of the accounts.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Good Neighbours Network — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)
• Diocese of Portsmouth — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)
• Diocese of Winchester — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)
• Diocese of Guildford — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)
• Hampshire County Council — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)
• Hampshire's NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups — “We are one of more than 110 similar groups in Hampshire who are supported by the Good Neighbours Network https://www.goodneighbours.org.uk/ …” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Smith
• Ian Charles Hayward
• Juliet Anne Worthington
• Kathleen Sharon Harvey
• Lucilla Morgan
• Pamela Blackmore
• Pauline Elizabeth Williams

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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