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Registered charity · Reading

Readibus

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Disability
Where
West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham, Oxfordshire
Website
www.readibus.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Readibus
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.0m£964k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£920k
  • 2021£1.2m£982k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 61% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE AGED AND DISABLED WITHIN READING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF SCHEMES FOR AIDING THE INDEPENDENCE AND MOBILITY OF TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY DISABLED PEOPLE AND ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO DUE TO THEIR AGE AND/OR INFIRMITY ARE IN NEED OF SUCH AID.

Grants received

4 grants · £31,427 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Transport · £20,427 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000
  • SHAREGIFT · £1,000

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002025-12-18
  • Department for Transport £9,9382020-04-01
  • Department for Transport £10,4892020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002012-10-04
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.

14 trustees on the board

5.7y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

14
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 14General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Transport 17Business services 2Manufacturing 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.1m latest income
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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

41 from 50 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.
69%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
293377
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 11TH DECEMBER 1985, AS AMENDED 17TH DECEMBER 1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 01970233 · Active
Contact on the register
01189313406 · info@readibus.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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