MOTABILITY

Registered charity 299745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6917098 · Wikipedia · also known as Motability Foundation · also registered in Scotland as SC050642 (OSCR)

Helps disabled people to make journeys by providing access to transport, and working to make transport more accessible. Oversees Motability Operations to deliver the Motability Scheme and provides grants to Scheme customers. Provides transport-related grants to charities and organisations. Carries out research and innovation to make transport more accessible now and in the longer-term.

Objects

TO FACILITATE THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF DISABLED PERSONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROVISION TO THE BENEFICIARIES OF PERSONAL OR OTHER TRANSPORTATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harlow, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total resources fell slightly to £2,167m as total expenditure exceeded total income and gains, resulting in a net movement in funds of a fall of £12.5m. Free reserves reduced by £72m to £318m, representing 2.5 years' prospective spend, which is in line with the general fund reserve policy of holding between two and three years' spending.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: MOTABILITY ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 01786053 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nigel Fletcher — Chief Executive (source)
• Charles Manby — Chair (source)
• Ed Humpherson — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (195 likes) · instagram (236 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~22.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 71.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Manby MBEchair
• Ceri Ivor Daniel Smith
• DAVID HUNTER
• Dr Juliana Onwumere
• Hannah Barham-Brown
• JACKIE DRIVER FRSA OBE
• MERLYN VIVIENNE LOWTHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael James Harrison
• PROFESSOR WILLIAM WEBB
• Richard Cartwright
• Tony Davis

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 Outdoor Mobility.

• Outdoor Mobility income £151k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• CORNWALL MOBILITY CENTRE LIMITED income £1.2m
• DRIVING MOBILITY income £2.0m
• GOSTART COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £95k
• MOBILITY TRUST II income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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