SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE CHARITY

Registered charity 1049778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE CHARITABLE TRUST, TWO SHIRES AMBULANCE CHARITABLE TRUST

For charitable purposes relating to the general or any specific purposes of the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust or to purposes relating to the health service.

Objects

FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST OR TO PURPOSES RELATING TO THE HEALTH SERVICE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income dropped significantly to £368,000 from £1,598,000 in the prior year, resulting in a net outgoing of £306,000. Despite this deficit, the charity's free unrestricted reserves stood at £646,000, which is above the stated policy target range of £300,000 to £500,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 30/05/2022, 119 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Central Ambulance Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~12.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED.

• SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £205k
• EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £329k
• SOUTH EAST COAST AMBULANCE SERVICE CHARITABLE FUND income £184k
• EAST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £41k
• ACTION AGAINST MEDICAL ACCIDENTS income £1.4m
• WEST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £295k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.