EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE

Registered charity 283740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEDOMWHEELS

Transporting Disabled and elder in and around Devon

Objects

THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS AND ELDERLY PERSONS PRINCIPALLY WITHIN EXETER AND DISTRICT BY THE PROVISION OF A TRANSPORT SERVICE.

Area of benefit: EXETER AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£65k
Latest spending
£41k
Registered
1981
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an excess of income over expenditure of £24,599.68 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Total assets at year-end were reported as £57,643.60, represented by various bank and cash accounts. The document does not provide information on unrestricted reserves or a reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

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: 9

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

  • Volunteers: 12

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

  • Volunteers: 12

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£65k£41k
31/12/2024£66k£42k
31/12/2023£58k£40k
31/12/2022£53k£34k
31/12/2021£29k£30k

Common questions

Is EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated an excess of income over expenditure of £24,599.68 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Total assets at year-end were reported as £57,643.60, represented by various bank and cash accounts. The document does not provide information on unrestricted reserves or a reserves policy.

Who funds EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE as a grant recipient include THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DEVONSHIRE BENEVOLENT FUND.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DEVONSHIRE BENEVOLENT FUNDFY2022£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund15/01/2015£10kTHE FREEDOM PROJECT

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.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EXETER DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE£65k——unclear—no doubt
EXETER COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION FY2025£132k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CHIPPENHAM AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR THE DISABLED SOCIETY FY2025£91k—0unclear—no doubt
ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT FY2025£371k—0above—no doubt
MID DEVON MOBILITY FY2025£544k—0unclear—no doubt
CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT FY2025£234k—0unclear—no doubt

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