WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Registered charity 516384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Door to Door Accessible Transport.

Objects

TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FOR THE USE OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AND/OR CHARITABLE GROUPS BASED IN THE BOROUGH OF WARRINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE WHO ARE AFFILIATED TO THE ORGANISATION, OR INDIVIDUALS IN SPECIFIC NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY SICKNESS OR HANDICAP.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF WARRINGTON

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£174k

Latest spending

£159k

Registered

1985

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income for the year was £173,855 against expenditure of £159,317, resulting in a surplus. The trustees confirm that the budgeted income and expenditure, combined with current reserves, are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Under £50,000 — below the median for charities its size (£60k)

“No employee was paid in excess of £50,000” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Largest income source: none

“Income for the year was £173,855 (2024: £122,762) which included a grant from Warrington Borough Council of £53,000 (2024: £48,000).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: £35,000 (held: £35k)

“The charity has reviewed its reserves policy and the “contingency reserve” of £35,000 remains in place.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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
Volunteer management

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 31/03/2025

Government income: £53,799 — grants £53,799 (1); 31% of the £173,855 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Government income: £48,000 — grants £48,000 (1); 39% of the £122,762 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 2
Government income: £48,000 — grants £48,000 (1); 36% of the £131,823 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Matthew Boultonchair
DIDA MARIA MACIEL GOODE
Dr Michael Mark Mclaughlin
John Andrew O'Reilly
PATRICIA HODSON
Victoria Jane Leigh

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

Operates in: Warrington

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£174k	£159k
31/03/2024	£123k	£144k
31/03/2023	£132k	£124k
31/03/2022	£125k	£103k
31/03/2021	£121k	£82k

Common questions

Is WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that income for the year was £173,855 against expenditure of £159,317, resulting in a surplus. The trustees confirm that the budgeted income and expenditure, combined with current reserves, are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

What does the highest-paid employee of WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Under £50,000 band.

Who funds WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT as a grant recipient include THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION	FY2023	Unverified read£151k	Subtotal
THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2020	£1k	Bus Service Operators Grant Eng Comm Transport 20/21

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ROYAL COUNTRYSIDE FUND	1	£8k
THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT.

ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT income £371k
CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT income £234k
EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k
NEWTON ABBOT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £452k
WESTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.2m
ACCESSIBLE PASSENGER TRANSPORT SERVICES LIMITED income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
WARRINGTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT	£174k	Under £50,000	no_policy	—	no doubt
ACCESSIBLE CARING TRANSPORT FY2025	£371k	—	above	—	no doubt
CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT FY2025	£234k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED FY2025	£847k	—	above	—	no doubt
NEWTON ABBOT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION FY2025	£452k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WESTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED FY2025	£1.2m	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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