EAST CORNWALL SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM

Registered charity 1184106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECSRT

The charities activities include providing support to the statutory emergency services in the Search & Rescue of missing, lost, injured people in any outdoor environment within East Cornwall, and in addition will provide resilience across the country to other Mountain Rescue/Search & Rescue Teams

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT LIFE AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AN EMERGENCY RESCUE SERVICE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC A) BY PROVISION OF A DEDICATED AND TRAINED VOLUNTEER SERVICE TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE EMERGENCY SERVICES IN THE OPERATION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE IN EAST CORNWALL; B) BY PROVISION OF A BACK-UP SERVICE TO OTHER SEARCH AND RESCUE GROUPS ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM IF CALLED UPON AND ABLE TO DO SO C) BY PROVISION OF ADVICE AND GUIDANCE WHERE REQUESTED TO ENABLE RESIDENTS OF, AND VISITORS TO, THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL TO ACCESS AND ENJOY THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN SAFETY

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds total net assets of £241,352, comprising a designated capital fund of £177,551 and unrestricted funds of £63,064. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed. The organization is entirely volunteer-staffed and relies on donations and grants to fund its emergency rescue operations.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kirstie Elaine Martin
• Michael John Penn
• Neil Fuller
• Steven Marshall
• Tim Hughes
• Tristan Geoffrey James

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).