AXMINSTER CARE SERVICE

Registered charity 900144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Car Service to transport clients to hospital & doctor's appointments. Financial assistance to local churches, Job Centre, families in need, food banks, local schools & colleges, Centre for people with disabilities, Scouts, Heritage and Arts centres, local community projects. Community sports centre, bereavement counselling.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY BY SUCH LEGALLY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT IN THE TOWN OF AXMINSTER AND SURROUNDING PARISHES IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON.

Area of benefit: TOWN OF AXMINSTER AND SURROUNDING PARISHES THE COUNTY OF DEV

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £2,395 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £122,894 against expenditure of £125,289. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that the charity maintained enough reserves to continue operating for a minimum of one year, ensuring continuity of service provision.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~138.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JAMES VANNchair
• ALISON HAYWARD
• Dianne Bruce
• Malcolm Laws
• Thelma Collier Mrs

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HINCKLEY AND BOSWORTH AREA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SCHEME.

• HINCKLEY AND BOSWORTH AREA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SCHEME income £134k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• EAST TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £162k
• OUR CENTRE income £336k
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