## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 02/06/2024 Period start date To 01/06/2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: THAMES SEARCH AND RESCUE**
## **Charity registration number: 1167791**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**SEARCH AND RESCUE ACTIVITY**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**PROVIDING SEARCH AND RESCUE**
**SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**YES**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference|
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||Para 1.38|
|Policy on grant making||
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|Policy on social investment||
|including program related||
|investment||
||Para 1.38|
|Contribution made by||
|volunteers||
|Other||
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference **NONE DURING THIS YEAR** Summary of the main Para 1.20 achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**YES**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**TO ENSURE THERE IS MONEY FOR**
**EQUIPMENT AND RESCOURCES**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**45**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit||**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CONSTITUTION**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**VOLNTEERED AND ELECTED**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|THAMES SEARCH AND RESCUE|
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|Other name the charity uses|THAMES SAR|
|Registered charity number|1167791|
|Charity’s principal address|57 MAIDSTONE ROAD
RAINHAM
KENT
ME80DP|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** NLUFF **Full name(s)** NICHOLAS LUFF **Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR **Chair, etc) Date** 17/03/2025
## **Section C Notes to the accounts**
## Note 1 **Basis of preparation**
## _**This section should be completed by all charities** ._
## **1.1 Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
|• and with*
• and with*|x|the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing
their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and
Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014
the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS
102)|
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- and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.*
yes
* -Tick as appropriate
## **1.2 Going concern**
_**If there are material uncertainties related to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, please provide the following details or state "Not applicable", if appropriate:**_
An explanation as to those factors that support the _**not applicable**_ conclusion that the charity is a going concern; Disclosure of any uncertainties that make the _**not applicable**_ going concern assumption doubtful; Where accounts are not prepared on a going _**not applicable**_ concern basis, please disclose this fact together with the basis on which the trustees prepared the accounts and the reason why the charity is not regarded as a going concern.
## **1.3 Change of accounting policy**
The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes have been made to the accounting policies adopted in note { }.
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No*|x|* -Tick as appropriate|* -Tick as appropriate|
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|**_Please disclose:_**||||
|**_(i) the nature of the change in accounting policy;_**|||not applicable|
|**_(ii) the reasons why applying the new accounting policy_**
**_provides more reliable and more relevant information; and_**|||not applicable|
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_**(iii) the amount of the adjustment for each line affected in not applicable the current period, each prior period presented and the aggregate amount of the adjustment relating to periods before those presented, 3.44 FRS102 SORP.**_
## **1.4 Changes to accounting estimates**
No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period (3.46 FRS102 SORP).
Yes* ü * -Tick as appropriate No* x
## _**Please disclose:**_
|**_Please disclose:_**||
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|**_(i) the nature of any changes;_**|not applicable|
|**_(ii) the effect of the change on income and expense or_**
**_assets and liabilities for the current period; and_**|not applicable|
|**_(iii) where practicable, the effect of the change in one or_**
**_more future periods._**|**_not applicable_**|
## **1.5 Material prior year errors**
No material prior year error have been identified in the reporting period (3.47 FRS102 SORP). Yes* ü * -Tick as appropriate No* x
## _**Please disclose:**_
|**_Please disclose:_**||
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|**_(i) the nature of the prior period error;_**|not applicable|
|**_(ii) for each prior period presented in the accounts, the_**
**_amount of the correction for each account line item_**
**_affected; and_**|not applicable|
|**_(iii) the amount of the correction at the beginning of the_**
**_earliest prior period presented in the accounts._**|**_not applicable_**|
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