NORTHUMBRIA BLOOD BIKES

Registered charity 1166689 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NBB, NORTHUMBRIA BLOODBIKES

Out of hours courier service to local NHS trusts provided by volunteers free of charge

Objects

To advance health and save lives, primarily in Northumberland, Newcastle, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Co Durham & Darlington, by providing a volunteer courier service ancillary to transport provided by the statutory authorities for the transfer of blood, blood products and other medical resources between hospitals and medical facilities

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: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £42,893 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £327,771 to £284,878. The trustees report that the financial position is in good health, with reserves sufficient to cover 13 months of running costs. The charity relies on donations and fundraising events for income, with fundraising costs totaling £22,712 against £101,034 in donations.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Mann
• Claire Hillen
• Clive Franklin
• Ian Jamieson
• Jason Cooper
• KIRSTY LAWRENCE
• Lee Smith
• Michael Redpath
• Michael Thompson
• Paul Curran
• SEAN STOREY

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BLOOD BIKES income £114k
• LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND BLOOD BIKES income £73k
• DERBYSHIRE BLOOD BIKES income £157k
• BLOOD BIKES NICU SUPPORT income £72k
• Norfolk Blood Bikes income £108k
• FREEWHEELERS EMERGENCY VOLUNTARY BLOOD BIKE SERVICE income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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