## **Charity Commission** ## **Charity Commission Annual Return 2016** ## **GOSTART COMMUNITY TRANSPORT** **Charity registration number: 1145266** **Submitted on 20/11/2016** **Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked.** **This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2016.** **This document was submitted online by John Phillips on 20/11/2016** **Do not send a printed copy of this document to the Charity Commission.** **PART A - Charity information** ## **Financial period** ## **Financial period start date** 13/01/2015 ## **Financial period end date** 12/01/2016 **When is your next financial period end date after this one?** 12/01/2017 ## **Income and spending** ## **Income £** £62,727 ## **Spending £** £76,691 ## **Operating outside England and Wales** ## **Did your charity operate outside England and Wales during the financial period covered by this annual return?** No, the charity did not operate outside England and Wales in this financial period **Charity governance** ## **How many UK volunteers, excluding trustees, did the charity have during this financial period?** 17 **Does your charity own or lease any land or buildings?** No, the charity does not own or lease any land or buildings **We currently have no active linked (subsidiary or constituent) charities associated with this charity. If this is incorrect please see our guidance on linking charities for administrative purposes.** ## **Policies** **Does the charity have a risk management policy?** Not applicable **Does the charity have a written investment policy?** Not applicable **Does the charity have a written safeguarding policy?** Yes **Does the charity have a conflict of interest policy?** Yes **Does the charity have a policy for managing volunteers?** Yes **Does the charity have written policies in handling complaints?** Yes **Does the charity have written policies on paying staff?** No **Has your charity reviewed its financial controls during the reporting year?** Yes, your charity has reviewed its financial controls during the reporting year ## **Regulators** **Is your charity regulated by any of the following regulator(s) and/or registered with any of the following registrars?** No **Please tick any organisations in the following list which you are registered with or regulated by** ## **Finance and funding** **During the financial period of this annual return, how much did the charity receive from:** **Contracts from central or local government to deliver services £** £25,718 **Grants from central or local government £** £0 ## **Does your charity raise funds from the public?** Yes, the charity raises funds from the public ## **Does the charity work with a commercial participator?** No, the charity does not work with a commercial participator ## **Was your charity recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid during the last 12 months?** Yes, the charity was recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid **Does the charity have a trading subsidiary?** No, the charity does not have a trading subsidiary ## **Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?** No, grant making is not the main way the charity carries out its purposes ## **Does the charity pay one or more of its trustees for acting as a trustee of the charity?** No, the charity does not pay any trustees for acting as a trustee of the charity **Serious incidents** **Incidents that cause a significant loss of funds or pose serious risks to a charity's beneficiaries, resources or reputation should be reported to the Commission as soon as possible.** ## **SERIOUS INCIDENTS** - **Significant fraud, theft or loss of funds.** - **Significant sums of money or other property donated to the charity from an unknown or unverified source.** - **The charity (including individual staff, trustees or both) has a known or alleged link to a proscribed organisation or to terrorist or other unlawful activities.** - **A person disqualified from acting as trustee has been or is currently acting as a trustee of the charity.** - **The charity does not have a policy for safeguarding its vulnerable beneficiaries (e.g. children and young people, people with disabilities and the elderly/old people).** - **The charity has no vetting procedure to ensure that a trustee or member of staff is eligible to act in the position to which he or she is being appointed.** - **Beneficiaries have been or are suspected of being abused or mistreated.** - **The charity has been subject to a criminal investigation or an investigation by another regulator or agency; or sanctions have been imposed or concerns raised by another regulator or agency (e.g. the Health and Safety Executive, Ofsted).** ## **Have there been any serious incidents as listed above which have occurred since your last Annual Return?** No ## **Send Trustees' Annual Report and accounts** **You are required to submit your Trustees' Annual Report and accounts for this financial period.** **Do you want to do this now?** Yes ## **Please attach the Trustees' Annual Report and accounts for the financial period** 13 Jan 2015 - 12 Jan 2016 **The files you attach must be in PDF format.** **You must attach a complete set of accounts which is comprised of the Trustees' Annual Report, accounts and appropriate independent examiners' / auditor's report.** **Choose the file(s) you want to attach:** ## **File name** GoStart Accounts 2015-6 **Click on the checkboxes below to confirm that the attached document(s) contain all of the following:** Trustees' Annual Report Accounts Examiner's / Auditor's Report ## **Have your accounts for the financial period covered by this annual return been qualified?** No **Privacy Statement** **Any information you give us will be held securely and processed only in accordance with the rules on data protection. 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