FRIENDS OF KING ALFRED BUSES

Registered charity 1175535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) preserves and maintains a unique collection of 13 buses, 3 coaches and 1 car once operated by the former King Alfred Motor Services Ltd, Winchester, between 1920 and 1973. By encouraging the public to experience free travel on preserved buses the group endeavours to create a wider appreciation of public transport.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE TRANSPORT HERITAGE, VEHICLES AND ARTEFACTS OF BUS AND COACH OPERATIONS BY R. CHISNELL & SONS LIMITED (T/A KING ALFRED MOTOR SERVICES) AND OTHER OPERATORS LOCAL TO THE CITY OF WINCHESTER AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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 total funds increased from £388,851 to £401,449, driven by a net income of £12,598 after total expenditure of £173,315 against total income of £101,341 plus prior year funds. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £401,449 with no stated reserves policy target or deficit disclosed.

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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of King Alfred Buses (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES DAVID FERDINAND FREEMANchair
• DAVID RICHARD LEDBURY
• HENRY PRATT
• Nicholas Philip Richardson
• ROGER CHARLES HARRIS
• Richard Aldous
• STEPHEN GEORGE BIGLEY
• William Lennox Staniforth

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BUS ARCHIVE.

• THE BUS ARCHIVE income £399k
• FRIENDS OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY income £562k
• THE THAMES VALLEY AND GREAT WESTERN OMNIBUS TRUST income £171k
• KINGSCARE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS income £175k
• THE FRIENDS OF KENT CHURCHES income £223k
• THE KING ALFRED SCHOOL income £365k

Side by side with its peers

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