WARWICKSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE

Registered charity 1167079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WARKSAR

Protect and preserve good health and safety of human life in an emergency by the provision of trained volunteers and search dogs (?Volunteers?) to assist organisations involved in the search and rescue of missing persons. Advance the education of the public in all matters relating to lowland search and rescue.

Objects

1) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH AND SAFETY OF HUMAN LIFE IN AN EMERGENCY BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINED VOLUNTEERS AND SEARCH DOGS TO ASSIST ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH AND RESCUE OF MISSING PERSONS. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE.

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

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £32,619, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of covering approximately 12 months of running costs (around £26,000). The charity reported a surplus for the year, with total income of £63,675 against expenditure of £60,025.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/04/2024, 74 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 28/02/2022, 28 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Warwickshire Search and Rescue (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Malinschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Charles Haselden
• Nicholas Ian Cole
• Paul Middleton
• Phil Hewish
• Stevan Brown
• Wendy Elizabeth Clarke

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE income £119k
• THE SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG ASSOCIATION (ENGLAND) income £41k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE income £94k
• LINCOLNSHIRE LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE income £29k
• North Cumbria Search and Rescue income £35k
• NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG ASSOCIATION income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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