YELABUS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1153996 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YELABUS

Provides a minibus community transport service for members

Objects

3. OBJECTSTHE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FOR ELDERLY, DISABLED, OR OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED PERSONS IN NEED, LIVING WITHIN THE YATELEY AREA; AND TO SUPPORT THE TRANSPORT NEEDS OF CHARITABLE VOLUNTARY GROUPS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.DEFINITION OF ELDERLY, DISABLED, AND DISADVANTAGED;• ANY PERSON WHO IS OVER 60, OR PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY DISABLED• A CHILD OR YOUNG PERSON UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 16 IF THERE IS NO ADEQUATE PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICE AVAILABLE.• A POOR PERSON• SOMEONE MAY TRAVEL WITH A DISABLED, OLD PERSON, OR CHILD IF, BY VIRTUE OF THEIR AGE OR DISABILITY, THEY REQUIRE SOMEONE TO ACCOMPANY THEM• WOMEN WHO CANNOT PROVIDE SAFE AND CONVENIENT TRANSPORT FROM THEIR OWN RESOURCESNOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORIZE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hart, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£67k

Latest spending

£49k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £17,523 for the year ended 30 April 2025, bringing unrestricted reserves to £204,004. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to maintain operations until at least 30 April 2026, even if grant funding were lost. The financial review notes that while maintenance costs increased, the level of surplus is exceptional and is not anticipated to be repeated in the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimum of £75,000 (reserves figure: £204k)

“minimum of £75,000 (equivalent to a year’s operating costs, closure costs and similar) determined by the Trustees”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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Complaints 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
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2025

Volunteers: 17
Government income: £31,539 — contracts £8,707 (2), grants £22,832 (5); 47% of the £66,943 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2024

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £22,333 — grants £22,333 (4); 45% of the £49,435 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2023

Volunteers: 14
Government income: £14,600 — grants £14,600 (2); 30% of the £47,985 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YELABUS (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).

Hart Lottery — “We are also registered beneficiaries for the Hart Lottery .” (source page)

Register events

Received assets from another charity (09/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Gregory Richard Easterbrook
James Patrick Callaghan
Jason Woodger
KEVIN RICHARD WHITBREAD
MAUREEN AYRES
Paul Dennis Champney
William Bartholomew Hill

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/04/2025	£67k	£49k
30/04/2024	£49k	£50k
30/04/2023	£48k	£40k
30/04/2022	£45k	£46k
30/04/2021	£36k	£39k

Common questions

Is YELABUS ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £17,523 for the year ended 30 April 2025, bringing unrestricted reserves to £204,004. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to maintain operations until at least 30 April 2026, even if grant funding were lost. The financial review notes that while maintenance costs increased, the level of surplus is exceptional and is not anticipated to be repeated in the following year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds YELABUS ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YELABUS ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETERS YATELEY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETERS YATELEY	FY2025	£1k	Missions and grants (Business mission allocation)

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/09/2026	£20k	Minibus renewal
UK government	01/04/2020	£530	Bus Service Operators Grant Eng Comm Transport 20/21
UK government	01/04/2020	£497	Bus Service Operators Grant Eng Comm Transport 20/21
The National Lottery Community Fund	03/10/2019	£10k	New Minibus Purchase

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SMALLWOOD TRUST	1	£38k
LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS	1	£6k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCHILL AND LANGFORD MINIBUS SOCIETY.

CHURCHILL AND LANGFORD MINIBUS SOCIETY income £67k
COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD income £450k
THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £398k
YSS income £1.0m
HILLINGDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £573k
SW HERTS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SCHEME income £246k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
YELABUS ASSOCIATION	£67k	—	above	—	no doubt
CHURCHILL AND LANGFORD MINIBUS SOCIETY FY2025	£67k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COMPASS COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LTD FY2025	£450k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£398k	—	above	—	no doubt
YSS FY2025	£1.0m	—	unclear	—	noted
HILLINGDON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED FY2025	£573k	—	above	—	no doubt

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