SERVICE BY EMERGENCY RIDER VOLUNTEERS (OXFORDSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BERKSHIRE AND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)

Registered charity 1147549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SERV OBN, SERVICE BY EMERGENCY RIDER VOLUNTEERS (OBN)

SERV OBN provides specialist training, access to dedicated fleet of fully expensed motorcycles, authority to operate within the scope of specific Service Level Agreements in place between NHS hospitals and SERV OBN, opportunity to have their advanced rider skills assessed by qualified personnel Thus members serve their community by providing a rapid response motorcycle courier service FOC to NHS

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A MOTORCYCLE COURIER SERVICE, FREE OF CHARGE, TO TRANSPORT BLOOD, SAMPLES AND OTHER ITEMS USED FOR THE MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NHS PATIENTS, FOR DOCTORS, NHS HOSPITALS AND LABORATORIES.

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 charity holds unrestricted reserves of £211,620, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue, and net income for the year was positive at £14,937.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bracknell Forest Lottery — “Bracknell Forest Lottery” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAPTAIN KAMRAN IRANIchair
• Alliston Hyde
• Claire Ruben
• Guy Keith Lipscomb
• Jamil Hussain
• Peter Smithson

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Northamptonshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).