Boston Community Transport

Analysis

Boston Community Transport is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Boston. It was registered in June 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05140621). It says it provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Boston Community Transport reported income of £78k and spending of £70k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £57k to £78k (+37%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Boston Community Transport sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Harvest Charitable Trust (£78k), Giving Sadaqah (£79k) and Areivim Manchester (£78k).