SOLENT RESCUE

Registered charity 267039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Inshore lifeboat service to help save life and protect those in positions of hazard within the Western Solent.

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Latest income

£34k

Latest spending

£25k

Registered

1974

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £8,586 for the period ending September 2025, resulting in total capital and reserves decreasing to £101,707. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a cash reserve policy target of £20,000 and holds unrestricted cash reserves of £48,589, which exceeds this policy target. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Act and the accounts accord with those records.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £20,000 (held: £49k)

“a cash reserve policy of £20,000 has been put in place” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Carl Seabournechair
Bruce McKoen
Dr Sarah Peachey
Lee Cooper
Linda White
Russell Hemmings

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£34k	£25k
30/09/2024	£49k	£56k
30/09/2023	£12k	£31k
30/09/2022	£50k	£23k
30/09/2021	£42k	£28k

Common questions

Is SOLENT RESCUE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £8,586 for the period ending September 2025, resulting in total capital and reserves decreasing to £101,707. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a cash reserve policy target of £20,000 and holds unrestricted cash reserves of £48,589, which exceeds this policy target. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Act and the accounts accord with those records. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SOLENT RESCUE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SOLENT RESCUE as a grant recipient include Waterside Community Fund.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
Waterside Community Fund	FY2024	£500	Community

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/05/2026	£20k	SAVING OF LIVES AT SEA
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/04/2022	£10k	Search and Rescue Running costs
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/02/2021	£10k	Search and Rescue running costs
UK government	—	£40k	LIBOR Emergency Responders 17/18
UK government	—	£7k	Inshore & Inland Rescue Boat Grant Fund