SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE FOUNDATION TRUST FUND

Charity Number: 1049230
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY ARE TO FUND STAFF WELFARE, INCLUDING TRAINING, AND TO PROVIDE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS GROUPS WITHIN THE COUNTIES OF CORNWALL, DEVON, SOMERSET, DORSET, BRISTOL CITY,WILTSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, NORTH SOMERSET.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £285,137
Total expenditure: £330,638

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Education/training
Who the charity helps:
  • Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
  • Bath And North East Somerset
  • Bristol City
  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Gloucestershire
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 11 April 2013: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
  • South Western Ambulance Charity (Working name)
  • SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE CHARITY (Working name)
  • The Extra Mile (Working name)
  • W A S T TRUST FUND (Working name)
  • SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE TRUST FUND (Previous name)
  • WEST COUNTRY AMBULANCE SERVICES TRUST FUND (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

1 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Trustee 06 September 2012
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £335.39k £376.81k £763.42k £309.66k £285.14k
Total expenditure £414.83k £233.62k £490.05k £295.96k £330.64k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income - Donations and legacies N/A N/A £758.42k N/A N/A
Income - Other trading activities N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Income - Charitable activities N/A N/A £4.45k N/A N/A
Income - Endowments N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Income - Investment N/A N/A £546 N/A N/A
Income - Other N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Income - Legacies N/A N/A £2.00k N/A N/A
Expenditure - Charitable activities N/A N/A £490.05k N/A N/A
Expenditure - Raising funds N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Expenditure - Governance N/A N/A £35.48k N/A N/A
Expenditure - Grants institution N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Expenditure - Investment management N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A
Expenditure - Other N/A N/A £0 N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 31 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 31 January 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 30 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 30 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 22 December 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 22 December 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 01 December 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 01 December 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 16 October 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 16 October 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Contact information

Address:
SWASFT
Unit 1 Abbey Court
Eagle Way
Sowton Industrial Estate
EXETER
Devon
Phone:
01392261541