Halton Community Transport

Analysis

Halton Community Transport is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in April 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02884986). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Halton Community Transport reported income of £1.1m and spending of £1.1m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £696k to £1.1m (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Halton Community Transport sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (£1.1m), The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (£1.1m) and Warwickshire Rural Community Council (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 83% and trading 17%. Charitable activities took 94% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £169k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 27 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.