RESUSCITATION COUNCIL (UK)

Registered charity 1168914 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RC (UK)

The Resuscitation Council (UK) exists to promote high-quality, scientific, resuscitation guidelines that are applicable to everybody, and to contribute to saving life through education, training, research and collaboration.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net outgoing resource of £171,785 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a previous year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,599,230, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their updated policy target of twelve to twenty-four months of expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Resuscitation Council UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (95% 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: 73.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROF Gavin David Perkinschair
• Alexandra-Florentina Toader
• Dr Joe Anthony Fawke
• Mark Christopher Webster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil David Appleton
• PROF Charles David Seymour Deakin
• PROF Ian Kristen Maconochie

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY.

• THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m
• SUDC-UK income £401k
• THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.3m
• MEDICAL SCHOOLS COUNCIL income £2.7m
• THE SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PERFUSION SCIENTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £283k
• HEART RESEARCH UK income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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