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LONDON SEARCH & RESCUE

Established: 10 years

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
01/11/22		£129	£59	£70	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	155
01/11/21		£52	£43	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	155
01/11/20		£60	£47	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	104
01/11/19		£32	£16	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	101
01/11/18	*	£13	£20	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	55
01/11/17		£14	£11	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
01/11/16		£11	£7	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
01/11/15		£6	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
155 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Drone Search
£10,000	21/10/2022	The funding will be used to purchase a drone. The project aims to find vulnerable members of the community that are most likely to go missing including children elderly adults with dementia or ....more The funding will be used to purchase a drone. The project aims to find vulnerable members of the community that are most likely to go missing including children elderly adults with dementia or someone who may be considering taking their own life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to London Search and Rescue
£3,136	23/10/2021	We would like to focus on ongoing training and equipment for both our K9 unit and search teams, including tablets to use for search areas and navigation courses.
National Lottery Community Fund - Water Response
£10,000	02/07/2021	The group will use the funding to purchase equipment which will enable the provision of search and rescue services in the local area. This will support vulnerable people who are missing and help to ....more The group will use the funding to purchase equipment which will enable the provision of search and rescue services in the local area. This will support vulnerable people who are missing and help to save lives.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to London Search and Rescue
£3,648	24/10/2020	We would like to buy some search kit for our Bank Search teams so that we can increase our capacity for finding people near water margins.
National Lottery Community Fund - Medical Responder
£10,000	22/05/2020 0	The funding will be used to purchase 5 fully equipped medical responder bags. The project aims to support people during the current coronavirus pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Water Response
£10,000	27/03/2020 6	The group will use the funding to deliver Search and Rescue services for waterways across London. This will bring people together for important activities that will help the local community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Operation Responder
£10,000	11/04/2019 12	The project will purchase radio equipment for a search and rescue organisation. The aim is to ensure members of the organisation can communicate effectively.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/07/2014, number: 1157836

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

8 returns made; AR18: 312 days late,

Main office

Objectives

1) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEATH AND LIFE BY THE PROVISION OF QUALIFIED VOLUNTEERS AND QUALIFIED VOLUNTEER SEARCH DOGS(VOLUNTEERS ) TO ASSIST ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH AND RESCUE OF VULNERABLE, MISSING PERSONS.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE.

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