SOUTHPORT OFFSHORE RESCUE TRUST

Registered charity 1146805 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q21061628 · Wikipedia · also known as SOUTHPORT LIFEBOAT

The Charity operates two lifeboats off the coast of Southport and additionally carries out beach, mud and marshland searches and rescues in the coastal areas between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. Education and Training are offered to volunteers.

Objects

ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE PRESERVATION AND SAVING OF LIFE AT SEA AND TO EQUIP MAINTAIN AND OPERATE AN OFFSHORE RESCUE SERVICE AT SOUTHPORT.TO CARRY OUT BEACH, MUD AND MARSHLAND SEARCHES AND RESCUES AT SOUTHPORT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BETWEEN THE RIVERS MERSEY AND RIBBLE AND TO ASSIST IN IMPROVING THE STANDARDS OF COASTLINE SAFETY THERE.

Area of benefit: NO INFORMATION RECORDED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chorley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remained fully available for emergency call-outs throughout the year. The filing notes that the charity shop performed above expectations and that the lottery provided reliable income, although lottery membership decreased due to the cost of living crisis. Significant legacies were received, including from the Margaret Robertson Charitable Trust and Mrs Anita Bentley, which supported specific projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~161.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY MASTERS
• ANTONY WILLIAM TOPPING
• Alan John Porter
• Alexis Jane Heritage
• Elaine Almond
• JOHN SHAWCROFT
• John Justin Felice
• KATHLEEN WILSON
• KEITH ANDREW PORTER
• NICHOLAS DAVID PORTER
• NICOLA DAWN GOLDUP

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

Operates in: Lancashire · Sefton

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MARGARET ROBERTSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE MARGARET ROBERTSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £105k
• LOUGHOR INSHORE RESCUE income £17k
• RYDE INSHORE RESCUE income £45k
• R B R B ASSOCIATION income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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