HEMSBY INSHORE RESCUE SERVICE

Registered charity 274451 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as H I R S

Rescue Lifeboats and Lifeboat Charity Shop

Objects

TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN INSHORE RESCUE SERVICE IN FULL CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER SERVICES.

Area of benefit: HEMSBY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £718,974, which exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of three years' operational costs. The trustees confirm that the charity has returned to pre-pandemic fundraising levels and has no going concern issues, indicating a sustainable financial position.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte May Hummelchair
• Amanda Deeks
• Antony Edward Gouldstone

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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