SURREY SEARCH AND RESCUE

Registered charity 1194397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Surrey Search & Rescue is a voluntary specialist search team that assists the emergency services to find missing vulnerable adults and children. We are on-call 24 hours a day, with a team of 80 plus people and search dogs, to respond across Surrey and surrounding areas

Objects

TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND SAVING OF LIVES BY:1) THE PROVISION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE RESOURCES TO AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EMERGENCY SERVICES AND OTHER STATUTORY BODIES OR THIRD PARTIES, IN LINE WITH THE UK SEARCH AND RESCUE FRAMEWORK OR OTHER APPROPRIATE GUIDANCE OR REGULATION;(2) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND ADVICE TO SUCH PARTNERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO 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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is strong and stable, with unrestricted cash funds of £78,257 at the end of the period. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of 12 months of operational costs, holding £50,000 in reserves, which they report as compliant with this policy. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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
• Risk management
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Surrey 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 (02/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Monique Stephenschair
• Ben Jarvis
• Jamie Mitchell
• Karl Linale
• Oliver Dibbens
• Simon Owen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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