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Provision of supported living services for people with learning disabilities or mental health disabilities, Provision of targeted domiciliary care support services for people with disabilities (mainly Learning difficulty),Provision of Respite Care for people with disabilities (mainly Learning difficulty),Employment training for service users with a learning difficulty.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Bridgend
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouthshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: South Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £25,164,650 and spent £24,784,722.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 36%, from £18,508,813 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £25,164,650 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 98% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

86% of its income in the year to 31 March 2024 came from government grants and contracts (£20,783,939).

Largest funder

Local authorities (not named) gave £20,660,608 in the year to 31 March 2025, 82% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: £21,750,866 from 5 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 3 funders who gave £20,729,421 between them. £20,714,446 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 7 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £683,360.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 868 payments to this charity worth £4,091,032 between 30 September 2020 and 1 July 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Karen CherrettChairAppointed 18 May 2021
• Elizabeth ChapmanAppointed 15 October 2025
• Hannah JonesAppointed 24 March 2026
• Lisa NichollsAppointed 15 October 2025
• Maria TeeAppointed 24 March 2026
• Rhian RobinsonAppointed 28 November 2023
• Richard TrooteAppointed 15 October 2019
• Stuart SneddonAppointed 15 October 2025
• Tzu-Hsin WuAppointed 15 October 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

703002

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 June 1990

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 MAY 1990AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 FEB 1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 OCT 2017 as amended on 18 Oct 2022 as amended on 30 Sept 2025

Company number

02506147This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.driveltd.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda