THIS CHARITY HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTER

Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    BLOOD BIKES WALES 

    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£261£184£77n/an/an/an/an/a250
    31/03/22£140£157£-16n/an/an/an/an/a494
    31/03/21£153£185£-33n/an/an/an/an/a408
    31/03/20£217£171£47n/an/an/an/an/a455
    31/03/19£182£162£20n/an/an/an/an/a455
    31/03/18£237£104£133£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£146£76£70£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£83£61£22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£60£40£19£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£45£31£14£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£51£25£26£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£26£11£15£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 13 years
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    What it does
    Blood Bikes Wales is a charity that transports blood, plasma, platelets, samples, vaccines, donor breast-milk & any other urgently required medical items to hospitals at night, weekends and bank holidays.This service is provided completely free of charge, allowing the NHS to divert funds where they are needed most. Our riders are a hardy bunch that operate in all but the very worst weather.
    Listed activities
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Other specialist outpatient services
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout Wales,
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 250 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Alex Ferry Foundation£10,000
    Steve Morgan Foundation£8,000
    Masonic Trust£5,000
    Co-Operative Group£3,865
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
    £5,000 31/10/2022
    Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
    Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
    £10,000 24/10/2022
    community grant
    Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Bloodbikes Wales
    £8,000 06/06/2022
    The grant is a contribution towards a blood bike for North Wales
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Blood Bikes Wales
    £3,865 24/10/2020
    We gear up to provide a completely free courier service for the NHS, relying solely on volunteers and donations to offer this service.
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Blood Bikes Wales - North West Region
    £2,673 19/11/2018
    We need to be able to maintain our motorcycles in a roadworthy condition so we can help the NHS by delivering out of hours urgent supplies.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/08/2011, number: 1143352
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • 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
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    12 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO ASSIST THE NHS IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR SAVING LIVES BY PROVIDING A VOLUNTEER, OUT-OF-HOURS MOTORCYCLE COURIER SERVICE TO SUPPLEMENT THE IN-HOUSE SERVICES, TRANSFER BLLOD, BLLOD PRODUCTS AND OTHER MEDICAL RESOURCES BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    WALES

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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