LONDON SEARCH & RESCUE

Registered charity 1192257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is based in London and operates both locally and nationally while assisting the police and other search and rescue teams in the search for vulnerable missing people.

Objects

(1)TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEATH AND LIFE BY THE PROVISION OF QUALIFIED VOLUNTEERS AND QUALIFIED VOLUNTEER SEARCH DOGS ("VOLUNTEERS ") TO ASSIST ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN SEARCH AND RESCUE OF VULNERABLE, MISSING PERSONS. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO LOWLAND SEARCH & RESCUE.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £35,016 against a policy target of covering one year of running costs. Total income decreased significantly to £111,780 from £204,047 in the prior year, while total expenditure including asset purchases was £126,247. The charity is run entirely by volunteers and holds cash at bank of £142,580.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Murphy
• Marie-Claire O'Hara
• PAUL LEWIS MBE
• Sean McCarry OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Wood

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE.

• CAMBRIDGESHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE income £119k
• HAMPSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE income £151k
• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• HQR LONDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £340k
• CLEVELAND MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £108k
• DERBY MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £180k

Side by side with its peers

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