The meeting will be held at The Gallery Room , The Tythings, Yateley Town Council, Reading Road, Yateley.
Please join this meeting to hear about the activities that yelabus has undertaken during the year, our plans for next year and a review of the annual accounts. There will also be an opportunity to meet the yelabus Trustees. As part of the agenda, Hart and Rushmoor Young Carers will give us a short talk about their work and how yelabus supports them.
If you would like to join the meeting, please send the secretary@yelabus.org.uk a request. Please detail your name and if appropriate the organisation you represent. If you are a Yateley resident and do not have your own transport, there will be a limited number of seats available on a yelabus vehicle that can collect and return you to your home address.
The secretary will email a copy of the 2025 accounts and the minutes of the 2024 AGM.
We look to seeing you on the 9th December.
Do you feel you can help your neighbours in Yateley?
If you do Yelabus is looking for new committee members to help develop our community transport service. Yelabus has been bringing community transport to the Yateley area for over thirty years. We are financially strong as a charity and our team ensures that we operate in a safe and competent manner.
We would welcome three or four motivated and energetic people who can spare a few hours a month to help with passenger relations, marketing and publicity and interactions with local authorities in the form of County, Town and Parish councils (or their replacements). Day to day operations are in the hands of our Operations Manager and our team of drivers. The committee meets once a month for discussion on our activities and most duties beyond that take only a few hours most weeks. Initial training can be provided if you are not used to charity workings.
If you feel that you can contribute then please contact chair@yelabus.org.uk and he will be pleased to assist in answering questions and to meet in person.
yelabus February 2025
Operationally our vehicles and drivers were a little busier in February covering 1274 miles between them – which included a trip to Portsmouth Dockyard. There were 692 passenger journeys made across 76 trips so average load on our 15/16 seater buses was 9 people – which means that for most journeys there were still spaces on the bus for others to join us. That effort was shared between 11 members of the driving team and we are grateful for their voluntary contribution of time to deliver the services.
If you would like to hire either vehicle for a trip out please contact the Operations Manager
yelabus January 2025
An update on our activities in January. Our vehicles covered 1205 miles which enabled 650 passenger journeys. 37 driver duties were shared between 14 different drivers. Our buses are required to undergo regular safety checks and so both spent a little time receiving attention during the month. Whilst the Treka vehicle was being used regularly the Volkswagen saw fewer bookings – but achieved more miles as one of its trips was to Butser Ancient Farm! With a few new drivers having joined us it means we have plenty of capacity for more outings so if you are thinking of organising a trip please contact our Operations Manager who will be happy to assist.
yelabus 2024
yelabus has had a busy 2024 and we now have the statistics for the year as a whole.
Our vehicles covered a total of 13909 miles of which 985 were on Friday only yelabus Connect service, 1878 on the Monday only Yateley Town Council shopper service with an astounding 4900 miles for Young Carers. The remaining mileage was spread between numerous hirers and we are grateful to all who hired our vehicles during the year.
Across all of the operations there 8332 passenger journeys – and we had a total of 840 distinct operations – so we were close to an average of 10 passengers on each operation – so most of the time there is room for more as we operate 15/16 seat minibuses.
Over the year we have availability for over 1600 hiring slots (a slot is a morning or an afternoon or an evening) – which means that we also have plenty of capacity for more hires (only about half were used in 2024) and with recent addition to our volunteer drivers we have more resources available.
If you would like to hire either of our minibuses for a local trip or further afield (one trip during 2024 went to Bournemouth and I know that in 2025 we will be visiting Buriton as well as Aldershot and Camberley amongst many other local locations) please contact our Operations Manager who will be happy to explain how we work; how we can assist those with mobility difficulties as both vehicles are equipped to carry wheelchairs and have tail lifts to aid access; plus the relatively modest charges.
Chair
yelabus
Muriel Brent-Breschinsky
The family of Muriel have been undertaking fundraising for yelabus following her passing on 16 August 2024 at the age of 97. She has been travelling with us for many years and made many journeys with the buses and her friends and they have raised an amazing total of £1,051 for which we are very grateful.
Fuller details are available at the Just Giving page.
To Muriel’s family we offer our thanks for the efforts in this fund raising and no doubt when we next need a new vehicle these funds will be put to good use.
Chair yelabus
6 January 2025
Annual General Meeting 2024
The Charity held its Annual General Meeting on 17 December 2024 and the minutes of the meeting together with the Annual Accounts 2023-4 are now available.
Chair yelabus
6 January 2024
Operations Manager – Lorraine Davies
yelabus are pleased to announce that we have appointed Lorraine Davies as our Operations Manager with effect from 15 April and that she has now completed her training and has taken over from Sarah.
Lorraine has a wide experience of customer service roles and has extensive knowledge of transport, although minibuses are a first.
Lorraine lives locally in Darby Green with her partner, one of her two children and a dog.
If you would be interested in hiring our vehicles or knowing more about our services she will be pleased to assist.
Tythings Coffee Club says Thank You.
One of our regular hirers, the Tythings Coffee Club, has recently received sponsorship from Robert Collard to meet the costs of hiring our vehicle for transport to their weekly meeting at Monteagle Community Centre every Thursday.
Both the Tythings coffee club and yelabus are grateful to Mr Collard for stepping when the previous arrangements reached a conclusion at the end of March as this will mean that meeting numbers can be maintained for the benefit of the participants as it is a reason to be out and about and meeting friends.
Collard is a well known local business turning over £70m per year, now operating nationwide and we are pleased that a local business is able to provide this support.
yelabus runs by using volunteer drivers to provide transport for the people of Yateley using accessible minibuses. If you would like to know more about out services please contact our Operations Manager.
Thank you.
K R Whitbread
Chair yelabus
Dolls’ House Raffle
Dolls House
yelabus has received a donation of a 50 year old dolls’ house which has been lovingly restored to a very high standard.
yelabus will be raffling this at the Yateley Lions May Day Fayre on 6 May 2024. Tickets will be £5 given the effort expended in restoration with the proceeds going towards the continuation of our yelabus services in Yateley and surrounding districts.
The raffle has now ended and we can report that the raffle for this item raised £150 and we are very grateful to all those who participated.