SERVICE BY EMERGENCY RIDER VOLUNTEERS

Registered charity 284455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2047844 · Wikipedia · also known as SERV

The provision of an "Out of Hours" (7pm to 6am) rapid courier service for the transportation of blood, samples and any other items used for the medical or surgical treatment of patients for doctors, hospitals and laboratories free of charge; Attending various events to promote these activities, recruit new volunteers and raise funds to cover the operating costs of the charity.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH IN FURTHERANCE THEROF BUT NOT OTHERWISE THE SERVICE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS: (I) TO TRANSPORT BLOOD, SAMPLES AND OTHER ITEMS USED FOR THE MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS FOR DOCTORS, HOSPITALS, LABORATIORIES AND CHEMISTS. (II) TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE EMERGENCY SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure of £91,382 exceeded total receipts of £90,204, resulting in a net deficit of £1,178 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £148,667 to support future service expansion and cover expected shortfalls.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 23/02/2024, 23 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 13/02/2023, 13 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Devitt Insurance Services — “Devitt Insurance Services, for example ( www.devittinsurance.com ), have subsidised the costs of fleet insurance for SERV motorcycles not on…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Harry Lewischair
• Adam Joseph Gerrard
• Malcolm John Mara
• Michael Hepworth
• Neil Hayward
• Roy Stagg
• Simon Morley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zara Percy

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 FREEWHEELERS EMERGENCY VOLUNTARY BLOOD BIKE SERVICE.

• FREEWHEELERS EMERGENCY VOLUNTARY BLOOD BIKE SERVICE income £92k
• SERVICE BY EMERGENCY RESPONSE VOLUNTEERS SERV (KENT) income £81k
• SERV SURREY & LONDON income £68k
• MIDLAND FREEWHEELERS - EMERGENCY RIDER VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £128k
• VOLUNTARY HELP CENTRE income £42k
• DERBYSHIRE BLOOD BIKES income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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