MAGIC BUS UK

Registered charity 1124753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Magic Bus takes children living in poverty in India on the journey from eduction to livelihood. During this long term engagement, our mentors work with children using activities as metaphors to change behaviour in the areas of education and livelihood. Magic Bus works with 360,000 children and 5,500 youth mentors in 23 states in India.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £58,640 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £111,263. The trustees consider the charity’s desired level of reserves to be approximately £40,000, which is equivalent to three months of operating costs, and note that the current unrestricted reserves of £39,868 are in line with this target. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditor confirm that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blue Spire Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Magic Bus UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Pearl Diver Capital — “Pearl Diver Capital is proud to work in partnership with Magic Bus to directly impact the lives of 2,000 children in the underserved communi…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne-Lindsay Makepeace
• Edward Wills
• Sanjay Jawa

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAGIC BUS GLOBAL.

• MAGIC BUS GLOBAL income £973k
• AT THE BUS income £789k
• MAGIC BREAKFAST income £10.4m
• THE CONNECTIONS BUS PROJECT income £407k
• YOGA MISSION income £129k
• THE BUS ARCHIVE income £399k

Side by side with its peers

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