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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Transport Benevolent Fund (CIO)

Transport Benevolent Fund (CIO) is a registered charity (number 1160901) based in London, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Robert Howard Jones since 2015. Latest income £5.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as TBF ( CIO) (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £5.2m (2025)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.tbf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.2m£5.1m
  • 2024£5.0m£4.8m
  • 2023£4.8m£4.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.1m£4.3m
  • 2021£4.6m£3.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE RELIEF OF NEED HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG BENEFICIARIES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE:“BENEFICIARY” MEANS A PERSON WHO IS OR HAS AT ANY TIME BEEN EMPLOYED OR ENGAGED IN ANY WAY IN ANY BUSINESS CONCERNED WHOLLY OR PARTLY WITH THE PROVISION OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT EITHER WITHIN OR TO OR FROM ANY PART OF GREAT BRITAIN WHO IS ACCEPTED BY THE TRUSTEES AS BEING FOR THE TIME BEING ENTITLED TO CONSIDERATION FOR RELIEF. “DEPENDANT” MEANS A PERSON WHO IS FOR THE TIME BEING WHOLLY OR PARTLY DEPENDENT FOR SUPPORT ON THE BENEFICIARY IN RELATION TO WHOM HE IS DESCRIBED AS A DEPENDANT OR IF THAT BENEFICIARY IS DEAD WAS SO DEPENDENT AT THE TIME OF THE BENEFICIARY’S DEATH.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 1Education 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

13.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 16.4 in 2021

25 from 23 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1160901
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 16 Mar 2015 as amended on 15 Oct 2019
Contact on the register
03003332000 · help@tbf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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