UTTLESFORD BUFFY BUS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1180905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUFFY BUS, BUFFY PLAYBUS, UBBA

Buffy Playbus is a local, community based, charity, established in 1994. A playbus designed to bring to the under-5s and their carers an opportunity to paint, play and socialise in a playgroup environment on board our double-decker bus.Buffy Playbus relies on grant aid, charitable donations and fund raising efforts to continue to serve our community.OUR WEBSITE https://www.buffyplaybus.org/

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR GROUP PLAY AND THE PROVISION OF THERAPEUTIC, EDUCATIONAL AND STIMULATING TOYS AND EQUIPMENT. TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN MAINLY WITHIN THE UTTLESFORD DISTRICT, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, THAT THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH CHILDREN MAY BE IMPROVED. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF AN INFORMATION AND ADVICE CENTRE.

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 a surplus of £5,780 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves of £85,517, which exceeds the stated policy target of £25,000. The charity reports that it is no stranger to difficult times and is confident it can navigate the current cost-of-living crisis, with no material uncertainties regarding its going concern status.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Buffy Playbus (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Rose Fenn-Smithchair
• JANET ELIZABETH MENELL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lucy Charlotte Russell
• Lucy Starte
• MARGARET ANN SHAW
• Richard Edward Jones
• Rosemary Anne Juhl · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IPSWICH COMMUNITY PLAYBUS.

• IPSWICH COMMUNITY PLAYBUS income £143k
• BUZZER BUSES (DIAL A RIDE) LTD income £285k
• THE BUS ARCHIVE income £399k
• AT THE BUS income £789k
• THE CONNECTIONS BUS PROJECT income £407k
• PLAY BRADFORD income £349k

Side by side with its peers

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