BUS PARK COMMUNITY HUB AND CAFE

Registered charity 1181905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We operate a subsidised Meals on Wheels service throughout South Derbyshire. We run a community cafe from the same building to provide hot meals to the local community and provide activities for those who are socially isolated in our local area.

Objects

1.TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF PEOPLE AGED 50 AND OVER WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, HEALTH OR FINANCIAL DISADVANTAGE, IN SWADLINCOTE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES, SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR THEIR SOCIAL INTERACTION AND RECREATION; AND2.TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF THOSE WHO FIND IT DIFFICULT OR WHO CANNOT SAFELY PREPARE A HOT MEAL THEMSELVES BY PROVIDING A MEALS-ON-WHEELS SERVICE.

Area of benefit: IN SWADLINCOTE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Disability · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed its community café in August 2025 due to decreasing footfall and increasing costs, focusing instead on its meals on wheels service. Per the trustees' report, the charity strives to keep costs low and use all possible reserves to fulfil its objectives, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds for the year. The charity relies on a mix of service income, grants, and donations to maintain its operations.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janice Hansfordchair
• Caroline Wilkinson
• Dawn Lloyd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lesley Kathleen Ashford

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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