Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 7

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 4

SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE CHARITY

For charitable purposes relating to the general or any specific purposes of the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust or to purposes relating to the health service.

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 several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
This charity uses a corporate trustee

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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		£495	£610	£-115	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	859
31/03/22		£989	£885	£104	£81	£520	£262	3.5	0	777
31/03/21	*	£559	£589	£-30	£45	£416	£302	6.2	0	777
31/03/20		£211	£398	£-188	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	965
31/03/19		£347	£443	£-96	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,200
31/03/18	*	£558	£545	£13	£4	£729	£695	15.3	0	0
31/03/17	*	£538	£348	£190	£13	£716	£694	23.9	0	0
31/03/16		£123	£190	£-67	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£237	£221	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£243	£143	£100	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£186	£126	£60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£162	£132	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£121	£109	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£107	£72	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£73	£51	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£132	£130	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£5	£4	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£9	£22	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£19	£12	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£12	£19	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years

www.sca-charity.org.uk

nicola.bateman@scas.nhs.uk

01869365087

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

General outpatient health-care services

How it operates

Provides other finance

Where it operates

Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
859 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Festival
£2,902	05/03/2021	Risborough Community First Responders
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Central Ambulance Charitable Trust
£3,029	15/11/2019	We want to buy a Mangar patient-lifting cushion and install an ambulance GPS system to direct us to the patient more quickly.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Central Ambulance Charitable Trust - Community First Responders
£3,913	19/11/2018	We would like to buy an emergency medical kit for a First Responder to use when responding to 999 calls in their local community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Central Ambulance Charity - Bitterne Scheme
£5,486	19/11/2018	We're looking to equip more of our volunteers with the required equipment to respond to emergencies. Each fully stocked kit bag costs £1400.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Lower Earley and Earley Community First Responders (Part of South Central Ambulance Charity)
£3,407	29/11/2017	We wish to buy an additional response kit including defibrillator to allow additional responders to be on-call and increase our cover.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Central Ambulance Charity
£2,691	29/11/2017	We are raising funds to buy more kits for new members in our group, ensuring more people are helped in the community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Maidenhead Community First Responders (part of the SCA Charity)
£4,540	29/11/2017	Funds will allow us to train a new Community First Responder and equip them with a responder kit, defibrillator, phone and pager.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Central Ambulance Charitable Trust (Fordingbridge Scheme)
£4,464	04/08/2017	We want purchase our own vehicle to be able to respond to medical emergencies faster and start life-saving medical treatment earlier.
National Lottery Community Fund - AMBULANCE 4x4 Appeal - WHITLEY and SHINFIELD Community Responders
£10,000	05/11/2014 12	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - 4x4 Appeal - Swallowfield Community Responders
£10,000	14/07/2011 12	This is a project by a registered charity in Berkshire. The group will use funding to purchase a 4x4 response vehicle for use during bad weather and off-road. This will enable the group to respond to ....more This is a project by a registered charity in Berkshire. The group will use funding to purchase a 4x4 response vehicle for use during bad weather and off-road. This will enable the group to respond to emergency calls more quickly and safely in poor weather or hazardous conditions.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/10/1995, number: 1049778

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission

Policies in force

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR21: 119 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 2 days late,

Main office

FINANCE
UNITS 7 & 8
TALISMAN BUSINESS PARK
TALISMAN ROAD
BICESTER
OXON

Objectives

FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST OR TO PURPOSES RELATING TO THE HEALTH SERVICE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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