YORK RESCUE BOAT

Registered charity 1155849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

York Rescue Boat is to provide a physical and proactive commitment to furthering the safety of the rivers in York. We aim to achieve this by means of a patrol and rescue boat, education and awareness. With progression York Rescue Boat endeavours to provide a stand-by team that will respond as an auxiliary service to the 999 services in area?s of Search & Rescue and community flood assistance.

Objects

THE AIM OF THE YORK RESCUE BOAT IS TO SAVE LIFE. IT WILL ACHIEVE THIS THROUGH THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: (1) PROVISION OF LAND AND RIVER BASED WATER SAFETY PATROLLING WITHIN THE YORK AREA. (2) PROVISION OF FLOOD RESCUE IN YORK AND AS PART OF THE NATIONAL CONTINGENCY FRAMEWORK . (3) SUPPORT TO NORTH YORKSHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE . (4) EDUCATION TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, IN ORDER TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIVERS. (5) FUNDRAISING AND COMMUNICATION IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES IDENTIFIED.

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 · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net receipt of £6,769 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in free reserves of £49,267. The trustees report that the charity is entirely staffed by volunteers who receive no payment, and that running costs are primarily funded through self-generated fundraising and grants.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
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• Internal risk management policy and procedures
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• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 01/04/2026, 55 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 16/02/2024, 11 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 24/03/2022, 47 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — York Rescue Boat (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair McCleary
• Andrew David Hart
• David Grabowski
• Robert John Newport
• Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Goodwill · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• THE YORK BRIDGE CLUB income £95k
• THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION income £286.7m
• RESCUE WOODEN BOATS income £45k
• EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST income £147k
• EAST MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BOAT PROJECT income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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