Dene Valley Community Transport Ltd

Analysis

Dene Valley Community Transport Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bishop Auckland. It was registered in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03891784). It says it provides human resources, provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Dene Valley Community Transport Ltd reported income of £71k and spending of £75k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £77k to £71k (-8.3%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Dene Valley Community Transport Ltd sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bats Blind at Sea (£71k), Horsforth Shed (£71k) and The Barnabas Charitable Trust (£71k).

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.