VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE TRANSPORT (V E S T)
Charity number: 518275
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The operation of a fleet of specially adapted vehicles that provide a transport service for people for whom the use on conventional public transportation presents difficulties due to restricted mobility through illness,age or disability.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £395,492
Total expenditure: £412,377
Total income includes £343,782 from 4 government grant(s)
People
6 Trustee(s)
13 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who the charity helps:
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How the charity helps:
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
- Cardiff
- Vale Of Glamorgan
Governance
Registration history:
- 01 December 1986: Standard registration
- 09 July 2014: Funds received from 1015508 RHIWBINA GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- DIAL A BUS (Working name)
- RING A RIDE (Working name)
- V E S T COMMUNITY TRANSPORT DIAL A BUS - RING A RIDE (Working name)
- VEST COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (Working name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
6 Trustee(s)
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| Keith Andrew Partridge | Trustee | 20 October 2025 |
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| Robert Gareth Jones | Trustee | 13 October 2025 |
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| Peter Arthur Jones | Trustee | 02 November 2023 |
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| Roger Charles Brown | Trustee | 12 May 2023 |
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| CHRISTINE DAVIES | Trustee |
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| MARTIN HEALEY | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £312.48k | £326.14k | £392.03k | £407.59k | £395.49k | |
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Total expenditure | £327.96k | £354.07k | £400.58k | £401.05k | £412.38k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £210.06k | £215.69k | £232.47k | £267.47k | £343.78k |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 05 December 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 05 December 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 27 November 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 27 November 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 26 October 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 26 October 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 08 November 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 08 November 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |