Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

TADCASTER VOLUNTEER CARS & SERVICES ASSOCIATION

To provide a community based volunteer transport service in Tadcaster and surrounding area to those who, by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, cannot conveniently use other publically provided transport services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£122£87£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£130£111£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£88£40£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£101£61£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£51£53£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£33£33£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.tvcsa.jimdofree.com

tvcsa.tad@outlook.com

01937835600

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
GiG Classification
  • Transport and storage activities
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Northern Powergrid Community Support
£14,019 14/10/2022
Alleviate hardship associated with fuel poverty and promote innovative energy related environmental impact, etc Support Community Hubs with crisis planning Support communities to decarbonise

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHRISTOPHER HENRY CLARKSON Appointed: 2017
  • IAN JAMES TALBOT (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • JODIE LOUISE GOODALL Appointed: 2022
  • KATRINA DALE TALBOT Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/01/2017, number: 1171039
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Tadcaster Volunteer Community Support Centre
30 Kirkgate
Tadcaster
North Yorkshire
LS24 9AD

Objectives

1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OR AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE WITH THE AREA OF TADCASTER AND THE SURROUNDING PARISHES BY PROVIDING A COMMUNITY BASED TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT CONVENIENTLY USE OTHER PUBLICALLY PROVIDE TRANSPORT SERVICES.2) TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTEERING, THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VOLUNTARY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE OF TADCASTER AND THE COUNTY OF NORTH YORKSHIRE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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