Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5

SERVICE BY EMERGENCY RIDER VOLUNTEERS (OXFORDSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BERKSHIRE AND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE) 

SERV OBN provides specialist training, access to dedicated fleet of fully expensed motorcycles, authority to operate within the scope of specific Service Level Agreements in place between NHS hospitals and SERV OBN, opportunity to have their advanced rider skills assessed by qualified personnel Thus members serve their community by providing a rapid response motorcycle courier service FOC to NHS
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 12 years

http://www.serv-obn.org.uk

chairman@serv-obn.org.uk

07785 703382

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£122£106£16n/an/an/an/an/a140
31/03/22£110£119£-9n/an/an/an/an/a124
31/03/21£107£95£12n/an/an/an/an/a153
31/03/20£108£101£8n/an/an/an/an/a146
31/03/19£98£90£8n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/18£133£86£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£96£82£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£88£44£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£77£48£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£39£48£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£42£34£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 140 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
DCMS£10,000
Oxfordshire Community Foundation£6,000
Masonic Trust£3,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£3,250 01/08/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Purchase of Blood Bike Motorcycle
£10,000 28/07/2022
The funding will be used to buy a blood bike. The project aims to provide an out of hours rapid response service to the NHS hospitals in our region delivering urgent Blood Blood products medical ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Fuel and Maintenance cost
£10,000 21/05/2021
The funding will be used to cover the fuel and maintenance costs of the rapid response service. The project aims to enable them to continue delivering urgent medical blood products and donor milk for ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Fuel costs
£2,000 02/02/2021
Purchase fuel for our fleet of motorcycles.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 01/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID-19 Fuel cost assistance
£4,000 09/04/2020
5
Advice & support - As result of demand to transport COVID-19 sample our operation is now 24/7. This in turn has caused an increase in our operating costs for fuel etc.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/05/2012, number: 1147549
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Sunny Bank
High Street
Ramsden
CHIPPING NORTON
Oxfordshire
OX7 3AU

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A MOTORCYCLE COURIER SERVICE, FREE OF CHARGE, TO TRANSPORT BLOOD, SAMPLES AND OTHER ITEMS USED FOR THE MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NHS PATIENTS, FOR DOCTORS, NHS HOSPITALS AND LABORATORIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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