Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

BASICS ESSEX ACCIDENT RESCUE SERVICE

BEARS provides immediate medical care in support of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The scheme operates across Essex and provides trained and equipped Doctors and Paramedics to respond to emergency calls. All the clinicians have undergone additional training to their base medical qualification to provide advanced care to any patient that is ill or injured within the county.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22	£110	£98	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	28
31/12/21	£93	£107	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/20	£101	£82	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/19	£140	£80	£60	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/18	£74	£72	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	15
31/12/17	£79	£92	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£93	£98	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£44	£67	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£36	£50	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£72	£44	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£137	£42	£95	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£100	£0	£100	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 13 years

www.basicsessex.org.uk

office@basicseessex.org.uk

07971955689

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
28 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Essex Community Foundation	£20,795
National Lottery Community Fund	£17,000
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£3,071

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to BASICS Essex Accident Rescue Service
£6,795	18/05/2023	to support the purchasing of simulator training equipment for voluntary clinicians at the Essex Accident Rescue Service based in Chelmsford
National Lottery Community Fund - Purchase of a SimMan Manikin
£8,000	10/06/2022	The funding will be used to purchase a SimMan Manikin - MegaCode Kelly. The project aims to provide BASICS Essex with optimum multi intervention training.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to BASICS Essex Accident Rescue Service
£6,000	14/04/2022	to help purchase equipment for use by a new Loughton based volunteer doctor with a Chelmsford based emergency voluntary rescue service
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to BASICS Essex Accident Rescue Service
£2,600	22/04/2021	to support the operating costs of a Chelmsford based emergency voluntary rescue service
Co-Operative Group - Grant to BEARS Basics Essex Accident Rescue Service
£3,071	24/10/2020	The project will enlighten all adults and children in the community of the vital work BEARS do as volunteers in their own time.
National Lottery Community Fund - Core Cost Requirements
£9,000	07/05/2020 7	The funding will be used to continue providing emergency voluntary response to critically ill patients during the coronavirus pandemic. The project aims to support the community in time of need.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	23/04/2020	to fund the purchase of Video Laryngoscopes and Blades and towards general costs
Essex Community Foundation - Purchase of 5 x Video Laryngoscopes and Blades
£5,400	07/02/2020 11	To purchase additional emergency medical equipment for a volunteer rescue service
Essex Community Foundation - Deliverance of Health and Wellbeing Awareness and Education throughout Essex.
£5,000	09/01/2018 12	To deliver Health and Wellbeing Educational Roadshows and Events throughout Essex
National Lottery Community Fund - BEARS Community Awareness Vehicle
£9,999	01/11/2017 12	This project will visit communities to deliver health and wellness education, helping the people to reduce their risk of illness and injury.
Essex Community Foundation - General operating funds - To continue to voluntarily provide Pre-Hospital life saving care across Essex
£4,000	09/05/2017 11	Support for the operating costs, including new medical equipment, of a charity voluntarily providing Pre-Hospital life-saving care across Essex

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

DR R DAVIES Appointed: 2015

DR JOHN EATON

DR IAN GIBSON MBE

DR PHILIP DAVID BROWN

PAUL JOHN GATES (Chair), Other trusteeship: BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR IMMEDIATE CARE,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/06/2011, number: 1142313

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

12 returns made; all on time

Main office

Unit 24, Office 4, Highlands Farm
Southend Road
Rettendon
Chelmsford
Essex
CM3 8EB

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING INJURY OR ILLNESS BY THE PROVISION OF IMMEDIATE MEDICAL CARE.TO ADVANCE THE STUDY OF IMMEDIATE MEDICAL CARE BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE ESSEX

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