HEALTHBUS TRUST

Registered charity 1186790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEALTH BUS TRUST

The provision of:(i) immediate nurse-led specialist homeless healthcare services and treatment;(ii) physical and mental health assessments, drug, alcohol and lifestyle advice, prescriptions, blood tests ,screening tests for treatable diseases, eye tests, immunisations;(iii) referrals to other services, eg. podiatry, sexual health, addiction & substance misuse, accommodation, literacy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF HOMELESS AND ROUGH SLEEPERS IN BOURNEMOUTH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY: -(1) LIFTING THE BARRIERS TO ACCESS GP SURGERIES AND HEALTHCARE BY THE PROVISION OF MOBILE AND OTHER PREMISES IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS CAN SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE;(2) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE HOMELESS AND ROUGH SLEEPER COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF HOMELESSNESS, HUMAN SUFFERING, POVERTY AND DISTRESS;(3) PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING; (4) PROMOTING RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES;(5) ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INDIVIDUALS AND THE LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO LIAISE CLOSELY WITH LOCAL PROVIDERS OF HOMELESS SERVICES, CONNECTING INDIVIDUALS WITH THE HELP THEY NEED IN ORDER TO MOVE OFF THE STREETS AND BECOME HOUSED.THE ABOVE OBJECTS MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF:(I) IMMEDIATE GP SERVICES AND TREATMENT;(II) PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS, DRUG, ALCOHOL AND LIFESTYLE ADVICE, PRESCRIPTIONS, BLOOD TESTS AND IMMUNISATIONS.(III) REFERRALS TO OTHER SERVICES SUCH AS PODIATRY, A HOMELESSNESS NURSE, ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS.(IV) PROVIDING PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE THAT IF SUCH PERSONS WERE UNABLE TO ACCESS VIA A REGULAR GP, WOULD LEAD TO WORSENING HEALTH CONDITIONS AT A COST TO THE PATIENT’S LIVES WHILST SAVING THE ASSOCIATED ACCELERATED COST TO THE NHS OF SUCH WORSENING CONDITIONS;(V) SCREENING TESTS FOR TREATABLE DISEASES;(VI) EYE TESTS WITH AN OPTOMETRIST (A UNIQUE SERVICE AS ONE WOULD USUALLY NEED AN ADDRESS TO ACCESS SUCH A SPECIALIST) IN ALL CASES WORKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity employed one paid staff member and utilized volunteers and contractors to deliver services. The trustees report that reserves are held to cover three months of fixed running costs, including salary, PAYE, and pension, and are maintained in cash accounts. The filing confirms the existence of a trading subsidiary, HealthBus Hub CIC, which delivers clinical services under a service level agreement.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

CQC provider record: HEALTHBUS TRUST — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Mark Wakefieldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Memon
• Darren Slade
• Gareth Sherwood
• Myka Wilshire · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Jayne Acton
• Sandara Jane Marshall
• Sara Louise Turner

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• CBHUK income £45k
• HAMELIN TRUST income £3.9m
• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k
• BUS USERS UK CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £811k
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.