AT THE BUS

Registered charity 1181294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

AT The Bus offers a school-based programme of art as therapy to support the education, health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 5-16 in Oxfordshire and London. Group sessions take place during the school day in a purposely designed therapeutic studio space in a double decker bus located on school grounds or in specially designed studio spaces.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND MENTAL WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCING EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND OTHER CHALLENGES AND COMPLEX NEEDS BY PROVIDING ART-AS-THERAPY PROGRAMMES THAT, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT WITH LEARNING AND INCLUSION IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCING CHALLENGES IN THEIR LIVES.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved steady growth with total income rising to £788,926 and unrestricted reserves increasing to £234,893. The trustees confirm that the balance of unrestricted, readily available reserves of £210,262 is in line with their policy target of three to four months of running costs. The going concern basis is adopted with no material 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 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

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 — AT The Bus (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Clore Duffield Foundation — “We are grateful to the following organisations for their generous support of AT The Bus: Clore Duffield Foundation” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deryn Mary Harveychair
• Anthony Mannix
• Bernadette Gloria Olabisi Lowe
• Graeme Jones
• Nelly-Sabine Rachel Cecile de Rothschild Munthe
• Susanna Rose Lawson

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 ARTS THERAPIES FOR CHILDREN.

• ARTS THERAPIES FOR CHILDREN income £335k
• US IN A BUS income £319k
• ACTONE ARTSBASE income £36k
• ART SPACE income £497k
• CAN'T SIT STILL income £202k
• KITH AND KIDS income £858k

Side by side with its peers

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