01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC047016
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 25
- Postcode
- E1 8PY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
Constitutional objectives
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.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £5,176,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £5,085,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 25 | 10 September 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £4,962,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £4,766,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 25 | 3 September 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £4,797,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £4,320,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 25 | 30 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £5,124,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £4,331,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 25 | 6 September 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £4,575,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £3,635,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 25 | 15 December 2021 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Suite 2.7, The Loom, 14 Gower's Walk, London
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.tbf.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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