CASUALTIES UNION

Registered charity 1200120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides trained volunteers to simulate injuries and medical conditions, to improve the realism of training in first aid, nursing, and emergency and rescue services.

Objects

TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN RESCUE, FIRST AID, MEDICAL AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES BY THE PROVISION OF REALISTIC, SIMULATED PATIENTS OR CASUALTIES.

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 reserves are steadily declining, reducing by 8.6% in 2024, largely due to an increased provision of charitable services free of charge. The charity reports no funds materially in deficit and identifies fees, trust income, subscriptions, and donations as its principal sources of funds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Casualties Union (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Jane Thomas
• Richard Piper
• Sarah Martin
• Steven Martin Paul Cochrane

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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