BUZZER BUSES (DIAL A RIDE) LTD

Registered charity 1109107 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of transport for the elderly or disabled who are unable to use a regular bus service because of sickness, disability, age or poverty or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services. Training of other groups drivers for midas certificate.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR SUCH OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEIGHTON LINSLADE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH A SERVICE BECAUSE OF AGE, SICKNESS OR DISABILITY ( MENTAL OR PHYSICAL), OR POVERTY, OR BECAUSE OF A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE AND SAFE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES.

Area of benefit: LEIGHTON LINSLADE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £8,893 for the year, resulting in a 4% weakening of total funds to £224,581. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm that adequate levels of reserves are held to cover their stated policy contingencies and express comfort regarding the company's financial security for the coming year.

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.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pauline Lilian O'Toolechair
• David Roy Pipkin
• Jane Gibson
• John Joseph O'Toole
• John Mark Freeman
• Sarah Wetherell

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with READIBUS.

• READIBUS income £1.1m
• NEWTOWN AND DISTRICT DIAL A RIDE income £203k
• BRIDGEND COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £303k
• GRIMSBY, CLEETHORPES AND DISTRICT DIAL-A-RIDE income £100k
• COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £2.0m
• EREWASH COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £847k

Side by side with its peers

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