KESWICK MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM

Registered charity 1165345 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KESWICK MRT

Mountain Rescue service in the Keswick area of the Lake District.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £175,618 and held unrestricted reserves of £1,190,911 at the year end. The trustees maintain a policy for the Trustees Reserve set at three times the previous year's expenditure to cover significant drops in income. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dodd & Co Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £20k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES SIMON LAMB
• Jonathan Hume
• Matthew Sean Bazire
• PETER JEREMY LITTLE
• Philip Rutherford
• THOMAS HENRY BLAKELY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION.

• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• CONISTON MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £158k
• THE DUDDON AND FURNESS MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM CIO income £405k
• WASDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £184k
• THE KESWICK CONVENTION TRUST income £3.1m
• KESWICK LIONS CLUB CIO income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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