HUMBER RESCUE

Registered charity 702278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objective of Humber Rescue since 1990 has been to provide a fast response rescue vessel on the upper reaches of The River Humber and its tributaries, and is governed by a Deed of Trust dated 14th November 1989

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND SAVE LIFE BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN INSHORE RESCUE SERVICE ON THE RIVERS HUMBER AND TRENT AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES IN SO FAR AS SUCH RIVERS LIE WITHIN THE COUNTY OF HUMBERSIDE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Humber Rescue holds unrestricted reserves of £445,504, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £49,101 (representing six months of operating costs). The charity reported a net income surplus of £160,585 for the year, funded primarily by donations and legacies, with total funds increasing to £655,738.

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
• 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
• 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)

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

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kate Elizabeth Willoughby
• Paul Worthy
• Timothy John Kitching

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City · North East Lincolnshire · North Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 8 BELOW HUSKY RESCUE.

• 8 BELOW HUSKY RESCUE income £190k
• DOBERMANN RESCUE U.K & EUROPE income £115k
• HORNSEA INSHORE RESCUE income £144k
• HAMBLE LIFEBOAT LIMITED income £147k
• HEMSBY INSHORE RESCUE SERVICE income £150k
• PETT LEVEL INDEPENDENT RESCUE BOAT ASSN. income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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