THE BUS ARCHIVE

Registered charity 1177343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We collect and preserve records relating to the history of road passenger transport (buses, trams, trolleybuses) and we provide an archive open to the public for education and research.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE EVOLUTION AND HISTORY OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF PEOPLE AND TANGIBLE GOODS AND IN PARTICULAR ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) COLLECTING, PROCURING AND PRESERVING, RECORDS (OF A FACTUAL AND/OR SUBJECTIVE NATURE), DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS, PUBLICATIONS AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT (MATERIALS); AND (B) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING NOT LESS THAN ONE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY PRESERVING THE MATERIALS, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR STUDY AND RESEARCH.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £269,696 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £1,339,266. The trustees note that all transactions related to unrestricted activities and there are no longer any restricted funds. The charity holds sufficient unrestricted reserves to meet working capital requirements as reviewed by the trustees.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN ROBERT KINGchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JULIAN HENRY PEDDLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• LAURIE JOHN POWELL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Leon Alistair Daniels OBE
• Martin Sutton
• Neil James Barker
• Nigel Wilfrid Eggleton · trustee of 1 other charity
• PATRICK RUSSELL
• PHILIP WILLIAM KIRK
• WILLIAM HIRON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE THAMES VALLEY AND GREAT WESTERN OMNIBUS TRUST.

• THE THAMES VALLEY AND GREAT WESTERN OMNIBUS TRUST income £171k
• ASTON MANOR ROAD TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £143k
• THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £398k
• THE BARING ARCHIVE LIMITED income £191k
• FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATED TRANSPORT income £402k
• ARCHWAY THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £186k

Side by side with its peers

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