NORTH WEST BLOOD BIKES LANCS AND LAKES

Registered charity 1147282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NWBB LANC AND LAKES

To provide a voluntary out of hours transport service to the NHS to carry urgent and emergency blood, blood derivatives, samples, donor breast milk for premature babies, Doctors notes, and urgently required theatre equipment, between hospitals.We provide this service through the night, at weekends and Bank Holidays enabling hospital funding to be better spent on patient care.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROTECT HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORT OF URGENTLY NEEDED BLOOD, DRUGS, HUMAN TISSUES AND OTHER MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION BANKS PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NORTH WEST REGION OF ENGLAND.

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

Registered contact address: South Ribble, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a record fundraising year with incoming resources of £284,122, resulting in a net surplus of £158,200. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £509,325, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet ongoing costs and projected needs. The charity remains solvent with net assets of £537,743 and no material uncertainties affecting its 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North West Blood Bikes Lancs and Lakes (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Dennett
• Colin Greene
• Haydn Williams
• Katherine Anne O'Connor MBE
• Oliver John Steele

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORNWALL BLOOD BIKES.

• CORNWALL BLOOD BIKES income £222k
• SOUTH WEST BLOOD BIKES income £121k
• Norfolk Blood Bikes income £108k
• BLOOD BIKES NICU SUPPORT income £30k
• NATIONWIDE ASSOCIATION OF BLOOD BIKES income £45k
• NORTHUMBRIA BLOOD BIKES income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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