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Brent Community Transport

Brent Community Transport is a registered charity (number 280698) based in Wembley, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Samantha Michele Banton since 2023. Latest income £1.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as BCT (Charity Commission)

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.brentct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brent Community Transport
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£996k
  • 2024£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2023£725k£790k
Earlier years
  • 2022£707k£819k
  • 2021£860k£927k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 63% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE NEED, HARDSHIP, DISTRESS, SICKNESS AND MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HANDICAP OF PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS, ESPECIALLY BY PROVIDING TRANSPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS OR FOR THE REMOVAL AND STORAGE OF THEIR GOODS AND CHATTELS; PROVIDING TRANSPORT FOR STATUTORY AUTHORITIES OR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS THAT ARE ENGAGED IN PROMOTING SUCH EDUCATION AND PROVIDING SUCH RELIEF; AND DISTRIBUTING TO NEEDY PERSONS FURNITURE WHICH HAS BEEN DONATED TO COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Grants received

6 grants · £178,724 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £70,3832020-09-09
  • Department for Transport £11,1402020-04-01
  • City Bridge Trust £81,5002013-10-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002006-05-17
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 4Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Transport 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.3 in 2021

20 from 30 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
65%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
280698
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25TH JULY 1980 AS AMENDED 15 MARCH 2005
Companies House
Company number 01509231 · Active
Contact on the register
02031147022 · info@brentct.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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