Finance Score: -10

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 5

Dormant: -10
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
All male board: -3

Gov Income
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -9

BERKSHIRE LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE

Search and RescueAssistance to the civil emergency services during times of need

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received Government grants

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
This charity appears to be dormant

Financial Data ?

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
30/09/22	£78	£99	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	88
30/09/21	£96	£32	£64	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	78
30/09/20	£120	£89	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	78
30/09/19	£57	£62	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	83
30/09/18?	£79	£67	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	61
31/03/17	£75	£63	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£45	£46	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£42	£44	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£39	£33	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£29	£22	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£32	£30	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£19	£23	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£12	£11	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£13	£11	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£13	£11	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£25	£29	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£19	£16	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£13	£18	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£16	£25	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: less than 1 year

www.berkshirerescue.org.uk

secretary@berkshirerescue.org.uk

03003210384

Charity Commission for England and Wales

This Charity appears to be dormant

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
88 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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue
£3,750	07/07/2020	COVID19 : Purchase of IT equipment for a missing persons organisation in Berkshire
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,000	03/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Community Fund - To provide specialist dementia training to all BLSAR team members
£4,800	12/07/2017 12	This project will arrange a visit from a 'virtual dementia tour bus' which will provide volunteers with specialist training, and will purchase a dementia stimulation kit. This will enable volunteers ....more This project will arrange a visit from a 'virtual dementia tour bus' which will provide volunteers with specialist training, and will purchase a dementia stimulation kit. This will enable volunteers to better understand the needs of people with dementia who are missing, improving support by cascading their knowledge to other search and rescue teams.
Department for Transport - Inland/Inshore Rescue Boat Fund scheme
£26,021	15/12/2016 3	To support rescue boat charities search and rescue operations and improve response capability

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW YOUNG (Chair) Appointed: 2023

MALCOLM PARKER Appointed: 2023

NICK MCLEAN Appointed: 2023

DAVID MCMULLEN Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: THE BLOCK, ARMED FORCES FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/09/2023, number: 1202260

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from BERKSHIRE LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE on 30/01/2024

Main office

Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue
Toutley Depot
Forest Road
WOKINGHAM
Berkshire
RG40 5QP

Objectives

TO ASSIST IN THE SAVING OF LIFE AND ALLEVIATION OF SUFFERING IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY BY ASSISTING THE STATUTORY EMERGENCY SERVICES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES

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