CAISTER VOLUNTEER LIFEBOAT SERVICE LIMITED

Registered charity 262126 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAISTER LIFEBOAT, CAISTER VOLUNTEER RESCUE SERVICE LIMITED

The public benefit, for the prevention & saving of life at sea, on the foreshore or from water by the acquisition, fitting out & maintenance of lifeboats, and the provision of a rescue service to operate from Caister in the county of Norfolk.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE PREVENTION AND SAVING OF LIFE AT SEA OR ON THE FORESHORE BY THE ACQUISTION FITTING OUT AND MAINTENANCE OF A LIFEBOAT AND THE PROVISION OF A RESCUE SERVICE TO OPERATE FROM CAISTER IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

Area of benefit: CAISTER-ON-SEA

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: Great Yarmouth, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £161,375 for the year, with total income of £956,690 and total expenditure of £795,315. Per the trustees' report, free reserves excluding designated funds stood at £1,233,915, which the trustees consider sufficient to manage risks and continue operations on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. 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
• 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
• 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 — Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL ANDREW NEWTON GARRODchair
• Alexander Low
• GUY GIBSON
• Jason Richard Delf
• Kevin Wood · trustee of 2 other charities
• Owen Edward Nutt
• PAUL KENNETH WILLIAMS
• Richard Thurlow
• richard miles

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Felixstowe Lifeboat.

• Felixstowe Lifeboat income £53k
• SIDMOUTH LIFEBOAT income £638k
• CAISTER ON SEA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £63k
• FRESHWATER LIFEBOAT income £125k
• GAFIRS income £358k
• CARSTAIRS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST income £291k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.