LAMA Supporters
All you need to know about keeping the LAMA minibus on the road
Fundraising
To keep our minibus on the road, the committee organises a wide range of fundraising events. We are grateful to the residents of the Lerryn Area for their generous support in previous events. Do keep an eye out for the posters advertising forthcoming fundraising events on this website as well as around Lerryn and Lostwithiel. If you would like to help with raising funds for LAMA then please speak to us (see "Who You Gonna Call?" section on our home page).
Members
Keeping a community bus running requires planning and commitment. If you could give some time to help with this, then please join us as a member. Members meet twice a year to monitor current operations, to set policy for future use and to plan for replacing the minibus. Some members meet more often as part of the LAMA Committee to manage day-to-day activity, including passenger bookings, vehicle maintenance, timetabling, publicity, fund raising, driver training and regulation compliance. If you are interested in helping then please speak to us (see "Who You Gonna Call?" section on our home page) or complete and return the Membership Form below.
| Member Summary | Membership Form |
Rules and Regulations
Lerryn Area Minibus Association was formed in 1987 to provide transport services to benefit the community and is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The rules and regulations that control how LAMA may operate are linked below.
| LAMA Rules | FCA Register |
LAMA Management
LAMA is managed by its members at general meetings. In March every year, an annual general meeting (AGM) is held to receive the accounts for the previous year and to decide auditing arrangements for the current year. The AGM will also elect a treasurer, a secretary and working groups as required. The principal working group is the LAMA committee which meets regularly to manage day to day minibus operations.
LAMA General Meetings
The minutes of all recent LAMA general meetings may be found below:
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Risk Assessment
Please click on the link below to see the risk assessment for the day-to-day operation of the LAMA minibus in both normal circumstances and when operating under infection control (COVID) restrictions.
Objects
The Association shall have the object of operating transport services for the benefit of the community to:
- Improve the wellbeing of all individuals who reside within the Lerryn Area, or who are temporarily resident with someone who resides within the area, particularly those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
- Maintain and enhance the sense of community that exists within the Lerryn Area, particularly with regard to relieving loneliness and in supporting people to help one another.
- Enrich people’s understanding and appreciation within the Lerryn Area of both their own and other people’s heritage, culture and religion.
- Support those people within the Lerryn Area who are in full-time education or who are undertaking a recognised training programme or who are furthering their personal development through part-time study.
- Assist with the personal and social development of young people within the Lerryn Area through the provision of opportunities for leisure activities, voluntary engagement and non-formal and informal learning.
- Encourage people’s participation in amateur sports or games within the Lerryn Area which promotes health by involving physical or mental skill or exertion.
- Facilitate recreation and other leisure time occupation that: benefit people within the Lerryn Area, are altruistic in character and improve people’s conditions of life (2000-08 – The Recreational Charities Act 1958, Charity Commission Section 1 Guidance (RR4) refers).
- Support other charitable purposes being undertaken within the Lerryn Area.
- Enable other not-for-profit organisations within the Lerryn Area that benefit the community to both support these aims and also to further their own aims.
- Cooperate with nearby volunteer community transport operators to support one another in fulfilling each other’s objects.
Operating Permit
Under the Transport Act 1985, LAMA is not allowed to carry members of the general public, but under Section 19 of the Act, we are allowed to carry members of LAMA and other particular classes of persons as follows:
- Class A - members of the body holding the permit.
- Class B - persons whom the body exists to benefit, and persons assisting them.
- Class C - disabled persons (as defined in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995) or persons who are seriously ill and persons assisting them.
- Class D - pupils or students of any school, college, university or other educational establishment and staff or other helpers accompanying them.
