FERRYSIDE LIFEBOAT

Registered charity 1212126 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operation of Ferryside Lifeboat, a fully independent lifeboat, operating in the Three Rivers Estuary and Carmarthen Bay, Wales.

Objects

TO SAVE LIVES AT SEA THROUGH THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN INDEPENDENT LIFEBOAT SERVICE.TO PROMOTE SAFETY, EDUCATION, AND TRAINING FOR THE PREVENTION OF MARITIME ACCIDENTS. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS IN DISTRESS ON OR NEAR WATER WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA SPECIFIED IN OUR DECLARED FACILITY AGREEMENT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S COASTGUARD, INCLUDING THE RIVERS OF THE TOWY, TAF AND GWENDRAITH.

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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Registered contact address: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Ferryside Lifeboat is a newly formed Charitable Incorporated Organisation that took over operations in April 2025. The filing identifies significant financial risks regarding the high cost of running the service and the imminent need to replace the main lifeboat, which will require at least £150,000. It also highlights a critical operational risk due to a reliance on a small number of volunteers.

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 2 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ferryside Lifeboat (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony John Reeschair
• BRYONY EVETT-HACKFORT
• Catherine Marks
• David Edward John Atkinson
• Michael John Utting

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · City Of Swansea · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.