WASDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM

Registered charity 1170178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team provides a Search & Rescue service on the mountains and off road locations in the Wasdale and Eskdale valleys of West Cumbria and surrounding areas. The team typically handles over 100 calls for assistance a year. Further information can be found at wmrt.org.uk

Objects

TO SAVE LIFE AND ALLEVIATE DISTRESS PRIMARILY IN UPLAND OR MOUNTAINOUS AREAS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1,439,862 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees consider sufficient as it meets their policy of holding at least two years' worth of annual income. The charity reported a net income surplus of £58,450 for the year, resulting in a total net asset value of £1,461,788.

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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Michael Smithchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Lee Tunstall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Andrew Thomas Cramp · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian James Davidson · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Richard Bamforth · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Lynch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph John Noake · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Kirby
• Robert Stalker · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANGDALE/AMBLESIDE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM.

• LANGDALE/AMBLESIDE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £608k
• THE DUDDON AND FURNESS MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM CIO income £405k
• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• DERBY MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £180k
• SCARBOROUGH AND RYEDALE MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £159k
• NORTHUMBERLAND NATIONAL PARK MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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