SHROPSHIRE STAFFORDSHIRE CHESHIRE BLOOD BIKES

Registered charity 1156212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHROPSHIRE & STAFFORDSHIRE BLOOD BIKES, SSBB, SSCBB

To support the provision of health care, primarily but not exclusively in Shropshire Staffordshire and Cheshire, by providing dedicated Transport services of urgently required medical items when normal Trust services are unavailable.By use of volunteers these service are Free of Charge to the Trusts, allowing essential funds to be diverted back intopatient care, rather than into transport cost

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF THE PATIENTS PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SHROPSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE AREA, BY PROVIDING FREE TRANSPORT SERVICES OF URGENTLY REQUIRED BLOOD PRODUCTS, HUMAN SAMPLES, BREAST MILK, PATIENT NOTES AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES OR NHS TRUSTS, THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE PAID FOR BY THE SAID TRUSTS, ALLOWING ESSENTIAL FUNDS TO BE DIVERTED BACK INTO PATIENT CARE.

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 unrestricted funds total £635,443, which the trustees confirm covers a minimum of 18 months of operational and capital costs. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £51,288 for the year, driven by income exceeding expenditure. Reserves are held to ensure resilience and future stability for the charity's 24-hour service.

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 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
• 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Shropshire Staffordshire Cheshire Blood Bikes (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Cummins-Whitechair
• Brian Mackie
• Elaine Perrins
• Francis Crozier
• Helen Bundy
• Ian Clarke
• Jeremy Cartwright
• Leslie Williams
• Lynne Stone
• Pamela Hillier
• Peter Allman
• Philip Sutton
• Robert Williams
• Steven Hunter

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Cheshire West & Chester · Shropshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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