CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE

Registered charity 1118622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To locate a person or object and ensure removal to a place of safety. This includes all other persons who may be in need of emergency care or protection from themselves or the environment

Objects

THE PROVISION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSISTANCE BOTH INDEPENDENTLY AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FULL TIME EMERGENCY SERVICES AND OTHER VOLUNTARY AID SOCIETIES AND TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONGST PERSONS ENDANGERED BY ACCIDENT OR NATURAL HAZARD AND THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE PRINCIPALLY IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE BUT WITHOUT GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATION.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£119k
Latest spending
£80k
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported income of £119,097 and expenditure of £79,761 for the year, resulting in a surplus. The trustees declare that the charity remains in a financially sound position, with total reserves of £64,510 held against a policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to four years of average operating and capital expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: at least equivalent to the average over 4 years of our annual running operating expenditure (Opex) and the average over 4 years expenditure on capital items (Capex) (held: £65k)
“We intend to maintain our reserves at a level which is at least equivalent to the average over 4 years of our annual running operating expenditure (Opex) and the average over 4 years expenditure on capital items (Capex)” — page 16
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£119k£80k
30/06/2024£46k£83k
30/06/2023£89k£46k
30/06/2022£99k£90k
30/06/2021£60k£57k

Common questions

Is CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported income of £119,097 and expenditure of £79,761 for the year, resulting in a surplus. The trustees declare that the charity remains in a financially sound position, with total reserves of £64,510 held against a policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to four years of average operating and capital expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund21/02/2025£18kAll Terrain Vehicle
Postcode Lottery01/05/2023£25kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund23/08/2012£10kFlood Rescue Equipment
The National Lottery Community Fund31/03/2009£2kMountain bike unit
The National Lottery Community Fund22/02/2008£8kCambridgeshire Search and Rescue (camSAR)

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMPSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE£119k—0unclear—no doubt
HAMPSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE FY2025£151k—0unclear—no doubt
LONDON SEARCH & RESCUE FY2024£220k—0unclear—no doubt
SCARBOROUGH AND RYEDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM FY2024£159k—0unclear—no doubt
DERBY MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM FY2024£180k—0unclear—no doubt
SUFFOLK ACCIDENT RESCUE SERVICE FY2025£313k——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.