REACT Disaster Response Ltd

Registered charity 1163214 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RE:ACT, RE:ACT Disaster Response Limited, TEAM RUBICON UK, TRUK · also registered in Scotland as SC052668 (OSCR)

To respond to domestic and international disasters; in so doing give a sense of purpose, community, and identity to ex-military personnel. Response teams aim to bring to bear the best skills and expertise from the military, first responders, and civilians in order to coordinate the best possible, most timely, and best integrated response.

Objects

3.1.1 the relief and assistance for the affected population of natural hazards and disasters, conflict, catastrophe or other crises anywhere in the world get the humanitarian assistance they require. To deliver this by the rapid deployment of vetted, skilled, experienced and well-equipped emergency response teams, composed of humanitarian volunteers, many of whom are armed forces veterans, and together provide humanitarian aid from the moment a disaster or catastrophe occurs to the point at which conventional disaster relief organisations are able to respond, and on an on-going basis.3.1.2 the relief and assistance for communities in the United Kingdom who are affected by natural hazards and disasters or critical incident, by providing volunteers as referred to in article 3.1.1 to support and complement where needed the responses of emergency services and other national and regional organisations to such occurrences; 3.1.3 to develop the capacity and skills of communities in the United Kingdom and around the world to reduce the risks associated with natural hazards, humanitarian crises, or the impacts of climate change through the deployment of volunteers referred to in article 3.1.1 as part of resilience, mitigation, and capacity strengthening programmes; and 3.1.4 the training and mentoring of armed services veterans by using their skills and experience to deliver humanitarian operations and programmes referred to in articles 3.1.1, 3.1.2, & 3.1.3 to support their transition, skills development, employment prospects and wellbeing.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net expenditure of £287,272 for the year, resulting in a reduction of total funds from £1,134,712 to £847,440. Unrestricted reserves stood at £637,712, which the trustees note includes reserves held by the trading subsidiary. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09644561
• Trading subsidiary: REACT GROUP SOLUTIONS LTD Companies House 11539755 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — REACT Disaster Response (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BULL, Caroline Alice Christina — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• STICKLAND, Charles Richard, Lieutenant General Sir — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• COATES, James Alexander — director, appointed 18/06/2024on trustee list
• WILLS, Nicholas Henry Charles — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• MANLEY, Maria Isabel Fernandez Utges — director, appointed 04/01/2024on trustee list
• NOHR, Nadine — director, appointed 04/01/2024on trustee list
• CARTER, Burr Noland — director, appointed 28/10/2023on trustee list
• HOLT, Katherine Emily — director, appointed 10/04/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lieutenant General Sir Charles Richard Sticklandchair
• Burr Noland Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Alice Christina Bull
• James Coates
• KATE HOLT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maria Isabel Fernandez Utges Manley
• Nadine Nohr
• Nicholas Wills

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Akrotiri · Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Andorra · Anguilla · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia · Aruba · Australia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REACT.

• REACT income £759k
• RAPID RELIEF TEAM income £2.8m
• REHABILITATION RESPONSE income £29k
• UNITED RESPONSE income £106.7m
• RESPOND income £1.1m
• REFLECTEEN income £280k

Side by side with its peers

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