18/08/2025, 20:01 Print annual return | Charity Commission BETA Having problems on this page? Your feedback will help us to improve it. Messages (/group/guest/notifications) Account (/group/guest/my-details) Sign out (/c/portal/logout)  **You will be logged out after 30 minutes of inactivity.** Home Cancel Print ## **Charity Commission Annual Return 2024** AVON & SOMERSET SEARCH AND RESCUE Charity registration number: 1168479 **Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked.** **This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2024.** ## **PART A - Charity information** ## **Financial period** ## **Financial period start date** 01/11/2023 ## **Financial period end date** 31/10/2024 ## **Income and spending** ## **Income £** £ 80,906 ## **Spending £** £ 56,401 ## **Number of contracts from government** **How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?** 0 ## **Number of grants from government** **How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?** 0 ## **Income breakdown** ## **Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)** £ 62,267 ## **Charitable activities** £ 950 https://prd-ds-my-charity-account.charitycommission.gov.uk/group/annual-return-2024/print 1/6 18/08/2025, 20:01 Print annual return | Charity Commission **Other trading activities** £ 15,631 ## **Investments** £ 1,672 ## **Other** £ 386 ## **Grantmaking** ## **Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?** No ## **Recipients of grants** ## **Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas). Individuals** £ 0 ## **Other charities** £ 0 ## **Other organisations that are not charities** £ 0 ## **Trustee payments** **Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?** ⊠ e. None of the trustees have been paid **Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?** No ## **Income from outside the UK** ## **Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** Yes ## **United States** Governments or quasi government bodies outside of the United Kingdom (including European Union) £ 0 Charities, Non-Government Organisations or Not for Profits outside of the United Kingdom £ 0 Private Companies outside of the United Kingdom £ 8,300 Individual donors resident outside of the United Kingdom £ 0 Unknown £ 0 ## **Methods of overseas funding** **How was income from outside of the United Kingdom received by your charity in the financial period of this return?** **(Tick all that apply)** Other https://prd-ds-my-charity-account.charitycommission.gov.uk/group/annual-return-2024/print 2/6 18/08/2025, 20:01 Print annual return | Charity Commission **Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom** **Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No ## **Spending outside of the United Kingdom** **Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No **Total Spending outside of the United Kingdom** £ ## **Trading subsidiaries** **Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?** No ## **Charity contact details correct** **Is the contact address displayed from the Register of Charities, correct?** Yes ## **Charity headquarters details correct** **Is this the same address that you use as your charity's administrative headquarters?** Yes ## **Charity contact address** **Address Line 1** 15 Salisbury St **Address Line 2** St George **Address Line 3** BRISTOL ## **Address Line 4 Address Line 5** ## **Postcode** BS5 8EE **Country** ## **Charity Headquarters address** **Address Line 1** 15 Salisbury St ## **Address Line 2** https://prd-ds-my-charity-account.charitycommission.gov.uk/group/annual-return-2024/print 3/6 18/08/2025, 20:01 Print annual return | Charity Commission St George **Address Line 3** BRISTOL ## **Address Line 4** ## **Address Line 5** ## **Postcode** BS5 8EE ## **Country** ## **Membership type** ## **Is your charity part of a wider group structure with a parent body and subsidiary bodies?** yes, the charity is a subsidiary body ## **Members entitle to vote** **Other than trustees, does your charity have members who are entitled to vote under the charity’s governing documents?** Yes ## **Employment contract types** ## **People were permanently employed by your charity** 0 ## **People were on fixed-terms contracts with your charity** 0 ## **Self-employed people were working for your charity** 0 ## **Safeguarding** **Has your charity provided services to children and/or adults at risk in the financial period of the return?** No ## **Serious Incidents** **Has your charity reported all Serious Incidents (including any historical incidents) that the charity became aware of during the financial period of this return?** There were no incidents to report ## **External risk and impact** ## **Donations** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable ## **Other income - grants** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable https://prd-ds-my-charity-account.charitycommission.gov.uk/group/annual-return-2024/print 4/6 18/08/2025, 20:01 Print annual return | Charity Commission **Other income - contracts** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable ## **Other income - investment** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Expenditure on charitable activities** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Expenditure on overheads** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Number of volunteers** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Number of employees** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Number of trustees** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Fundraising activities** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Capacity to deliver services** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable **Total service demand** Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable ## **Volunteers** **Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?** 49 ## **Privacy statement** **Any information you give us will be held securely and processed only in accordance with the rule on data protection. 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Any changes we may make to our privacy statement in the future will be set out in the replacement version of this form.** **Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.** ## **Declaration** ## **This annual return has not been submitted and no Declaration has been made** https://prd-ds-my-charity-account.charitycommission.gov.uk/group/annual-return-2024/print 6/6 |**AVON & SOMERSET SEARCH & RESCUE**|**AVON & SOMERSET SEARCH & RESCUE**|**1168479**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
01/11/2023|**To**|Period end date
31/10/2024||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Donations|**20,445**||**41,822**||**-**|**-**||**62,267**||**20,092**| |Income from Charitable Activities|**950**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**950**||**1,000**| |2nd Hand Vehicle Sale|**15,631**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**15,631**||**-**| |Refunded Spend|**386**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**386**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**37,412**||**41,822**||**-**|**-**||**79,234**||**21,092**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Bank interest
**1,672**
**-**
**-**
**1,672**
**1,237**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,672**
**-**
**-**
**1,672**
**1,237**
**_Total receipts_**
**39,084**
**41,822**
**-**
**80,906**
**22,329**
~~——————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Charitable Activity Payments|**19,555**||**36,845**||**-**|**-**||**56,401**||**17,407**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**19,555**||**36,845**||**-**|**-**||**56,401**||**17,407**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 19,555**
**36,845**
**-**
**56,401**
**17,407**
~~———===~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**19,529**
**4,977**
**-**
**24,506**
**4,922**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**51,713**
**3,943**
**-**
**55,656**
**50,734**
**71,242**
**8,920**
**-**
**80,162**
**55,656**
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Barclays Current Account
**Details**
**Details**
COIF Charities Deposit Fund
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
SB Appeal Fund
Restricted Funds Correction
**Details**
**Details**
Total Tangible Assets
OBW
Signature||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**41,552**
**- 8,920**
**8,920**
**5,011**
**-**
**33,599**
**-**
**71,242**
**8,920**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**108,016**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Oliver Wale|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of
approval| ||OBW||Oliver Wale|12/08/2025| |||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 18/08/2025 2 28/08/2025, 18:52 Avon & Somerset Search And Rescue Mail - Re: FY23/24 Accounts - independent check **Treasurer ASSAR ** ## **Re: FY23/24 Accounts - independent check** 1 message **Lynsey Hatherall** Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM To: Treasurer ASSAR ## Hi Oliver Thank you for the information. I am happy to sign off your accounts and say the information you have provided me, match the bank accounts. Do I need to sign anything or is there a form I need to fill out? Thanks Lynsey Sent from my iPhone On 11 Aug 2025, at 19:44, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: ## Hi Lynsey, For the £5k discrepancy, this is a result of us moving £5k from our current Barclays account to our then new Barclays investment account (a fund to replace our Search Bus) on 10 July 2024. I do not consider that this should be recorded as a payment, but please let me know if you disagree? For the COIF fund, I actually do not have direct access to this account, as it was set up by our chairman, but I can see the account balance on Xero (screenshot attached). If you would prefer an actual bank statement, please let me know and I will arrange one. Kind Regards, Oliver On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM Lynsey Hatherall wrote: Hi Oliver Sorry for the delay I have had IT issues, however I have looked at the accounts now and I have a question The bank account shows payments of £61,400 however your file only shows £56,400, could you please let me know why there is a difference. Also could you please send me a copy of the bank statement for the COIF fund just so I can see the balance. Thanks Lynsey On 8 Aug 2025, at 12:23, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: Hi Lynsey, I hope you are well. Thanks for this response, glad that it’s looking okay so far. Please let me know if you’d like to discuss at all? The accounts need to be submitted by the end of August, just FYI in case there are changes that you think I should implement. I hope that’s okay? Kind Regards, Oliver Wale On 1 Aug 2025, at 14:13, Lynsey Hatherall wrote: Hi Oliver I am just looking at it now will get back to you over the weekend if that is OK, but looks OK so far Thanks Lynsey Sent from my iPhone On 30 Jul 2025, at 16:21, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: Hi Lynsey, I hope you are well. I just wanted to see whether you had received my last email, and confirm that you were still happy to support with checking our accounts? Kind Regards, Oliver Wale https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ik=4d28ef3532&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-a:r5545979929077129043%7Cmsg-f:1840242344777978766&simpl… 1/6 28/08/2025, 18:52 Avon & Somerset Search And Rescue Mail - Re: FY23/24 Accounts - independent check On 16 Jul 2025, at 17:50, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: Thanks Neil. Hi Lynsey, Thank you so much for agreeing to check our accounts. We have not been through an external checking process since my time as Treasurer with the team (the last 2.5 years), so please let me know if there is a process you would like to follow. As a starting point, I have attached our proposed accounts to this email. The "R&P Accounts" tab is the page that we would submit to the Charity Commission and the "Xero bank" tab are my workings. I have also attached a copy of our Barclays transactions for reference. I hope this can help initiate the process, please let me know if any issues with anything, or any additional clarification required? Kind Regards, Oliver P.S. My cell number is 07731571800 in case you want to get in touch directly. On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM Neil Hatherall wrote: Sure, I’ve cc’d her into this email. On 9 Jul 2025, at 09:54, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: Hi Neil, That would be fantastic mate - and even better that it’s an extra step removed. Thank you both. Would it make sense for you to put me in touch with Lynsey, and I can coordinate directly with her? Kind Regards, Oliver Wale On 8 Jul 2025, at 07:38, Neil Hatherall wrote: ## Hi Oli, My wife Lynsey has said she can check the accounts. She is an accountant and has checked other charities accounts in the past. Hope that’s ok? ## Cheers Neil On 7 Jul 2025, at 18:40, Treasurer ASSAR wrote: Hi Neil, I hope you are well? Because we had a good year last year, with income over £25k, we are needing to have our annual accounts independently checked before submitting them to the Charity Commission (although not a full audit). We did have an exteam member lined up for this, but they are now a bit reluctant. I was wondering whether you would be willing to take on the task? It shouldn't be too arduous, and I have collated what I think is the required evidence. I have also https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ik=4d28ef3532&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-a:r5545979929077129043%7Cmsg-f:1840242344777978766&simpl… 2/6 28/08/2025, 18:52 Avon & Somerset Search And Rescue Mail - Re: FY23/24 Accounts - independent check checked the Charity Commission requirements (see attached) which seems to permit members of the charity to carry out the check, provided they are/were not trustees at the time. Please let me know once you've had some time to consider. FYI they need to be uploaded by the end of August. Kind Regards, Oliver -- Treasurer ASSAR - ## **Avon & Somerset Search and Rescue** treasurer@assar.org.uk www.assar.org.uk **Facebook** - Avon & Somerset Search and Rescue **Twitter** - @AandS_SAR **Instagram** - https://www. instagram.com/ avonandsomersetsar/ This email and any attachments are intended solely for the individual to whom it is addressed. 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