THE BLUE LAMP TRUST

Registered charity 1137786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote community safety in Hampshire by: Operating the Bobby Scheme providing free home security/safety surveys to the elderly & vulnerable including victims of crime. When appropriate practical intervention through fitting of security & safety devices Giving grants to schemes towards reducing crime & the risk of fire in homesOperate Driver Training to reduce death and injuries on our roads

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLICE AND OTHERS, THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND PROPERTY AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL ACTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1.1 CRIME PREVENTION AND BY REDUCING THE FEAR OF CRIME, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TOELDERLY AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN, OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING,VICTIMS OF CRIME OR ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN OR NEAR THEIR HOME;1.1.2 REDUCTION IN CRIME OR THE FEAR OF CRIME WITHIN BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;1.1.3 PROMOTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF STANDARDS OF DRIVING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ROAD SAFETY.1.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF FIRE SAFETY AND FIRE PREVENTION."

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £181,835 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £606,053 to £424,216. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting six months of budgeted salary costs plus fixed costs, with current free reserves standing at £366,857. The auditors confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Group Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Peter Neyroud — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Sarah Le May — Deputy Chair of Trustees (source)
• Lindsay Fox MBE JP DL — Trust President (source)
• Fiona Dunger — Chair of Blue Lamp Trust (Services) Ltd (source)
• Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton — Trustee (source)
• Alexis Boon — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (78% 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: 61.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Peter William Neyroudchair
• Alexis Boon
• Carole Lawrence
• Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
• Fergus Andrew Otway Mayne
• Fiona Elizabeth Dunger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Hosie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Durward
• Peter Smith
• Rachel Windebank

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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