RYDE INSHORE RESCUE

Registered charity 278166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17019411 · Wikipedia · also known as RYDE VOLUNTARY LIFEGUARDS

Provides emergancy service in the form of Inshore Lifeboat in the south East Solent waters between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and provides support, guidance and advice on keeping these waters safe.

Objects

TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA BY, IN PARTICULAR, THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN EFFICIENT INSHORE LIFEBOAT SERVICE IN FULL CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER SERVICES AND TO PUBLICLY PROMOTE SEA SAFETY, WITH THE INTENT OF PREVENTING OR MINIMISING THE NUMBER OF MARITIME EMERGENCIES, BY PROVIDING THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SUITABLE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR MARITIME SAFETY AND RELATED SKILLS

Area of benefit: RYDE

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: Isle of Wight, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £2,712.52 for the year ended 30th September 2025, compared to a net profit of £265.66 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the general fund is represented by HSBC current and savings accounts, with total unrestricted reserves of £58,780.77 (sum of £2,301.25, £885.94, and £56,493.58). The independent examiner confirmed the accounts represent a true and fair position of the finances.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 21/08/2024, 22 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ryde Inshore Rescue (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN MERKEL
• Adrian Farrell
• Gilian Osborne
• Martin Osborne

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOLENT RESCUE.

• SOLENT RESCUE income £34k
• HORNSEA INSHORE RESCUE income £144k
• WATERSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £773k
• LOUGHOR INSHORE RESCUE income £17k
• HAMBLE LIFEBOAT LIMITED income £147k
• SOLENT SEA-RESCUE ORGANISATION income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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