THE BUS SHELTER MK

Registered charity 1173705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Shelter MK

We will provide shelter and support to homeless rough sleepers within the Borough of Milton Keynes.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PERSONS, OR THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS, WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF MILTON KEYNES, BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, SHELTER, WARMTH, FOOD, ADVICE, SIGNPOSTING AND SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £328,310 are sufficient to cover 7.5 months of operating expenditure, exceeding the charity's policy target of six months. The charity reported a net income increase for the year, driven by higher charitable activity income, while maintaining a stable operational structure with no material deficits or going concern uncertainties identified.

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Shelter MK (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pamela Williamschair
• Andrew John Penfold
• Claire Elizabeth Chaudhuri
• Clare Elizabeth White
• Dave Pickering
• Helen Elizabeth Armstrong Christie
• Martyn John Herbert
• Michael Stephen Thompson
• Pete Smith
• Philip Martin Tait

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

Operates in: Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE BUS SHELTER DORSET.

• THE BUS SHELTER DORSET income £631k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• UnityMK income £958k
• BOGNOR HOUSING TRUST income £376k
• CABMEN'S SHELTER FUND income £199k
• HELP THE HOMELESS LEICESTER income £289k

Side by side with its peers

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