PATTERDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1063329 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PATTERDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION

mountain and lake rescue service

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND SUSTAIN PATTERDALE, MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM, A CHARITABLE RESCUE SERVICE FOR ALL WHO SUFFER SICKNESS, PERIL OR ANY OTHER ADVERSITY ON ANY OF THE MOUNTAINS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND PARTICULARLY ON THE MOUNTAINS OF CUMBRIA IN THE VICINITY OF PATTERDAL;E OR WHILE BOATING OR BATHING IN LAKES AND RIVERS OR STREAMS IN THE VICINITY OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTISE CUMBRIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £257,860 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by incoming resources of £281,343 against outgoing resources of £129,144. The trustees confirm that free reserves stood at £1,005,341, which is above the stated policy target of maintaining cash reserves of at least two years' normal operating cost expenditure (approximately £210,000). The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Glenn Bridge
• Helen Haslam
• Ken Hardcastle
• Martin Cotterell
• Michael Paul Gillibrand
• Nigel David George Harling
• Peter Graham Baker
• Prof. Malcolm Joseph Jackson
• Robert Neil Barrow
• Stephen Howe

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABERGLASLYN MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM.

• ABERGLASLYN MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £30k
• LANGDALE/AMBLESIDE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £608k
• MOUNTAIN RESCUE ENGLAND AND WALES income £1.3m
• RECOVERY PARTNERS LIMITED income £84k
• BOWLAND PENNINE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £0
• ROSSENDALE AND PENDLE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £333k

Side by side with its peers

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