## **Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team** **Formerly Bridgend Mountain Rescue Team (Est. 1964) Registered Charity 1180863** ## **ANNUAL TRUSTEE REPORT** ## **2021 – 2022** **CHARITY NAME:** Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team ## **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER** : 1180863 **REGISTERED OFFICE** : Western Beacons Mountain Rescue team are based out of council garages in Adams Avenue, Sarn Bridgend CF32 9RX. ## **TRUSTEES:** Mr Nicholas McAllister- Chairman Mr Robert Wallis – Treasurer, Mr Mark Lewis Mr Micheal Jeffery Mr Mark Songhurst Miss Kate Murray Miss Rebecca Smith Mr Paul Williams ## **TRUSTEES REPORT:** The trustees present their report for the year ending March 2022, financial statements for the year 2021- 2022 have been provided in accordance with the legal requirements. ## **WRITTEN CONSTITUTION** The charity is governed by its overarching constitution, this was adopted in November 2018, and amended in May 2019. The charity has been set up to take over the work of Western Beacons Mountain Search and Rescue team 500652, from 1 April 2020. Member of Mountain Rescue England & Wales South Wales Search & Rescue Association ## **DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY** The object of the charity is to provide search and rescue services to any person in distress in any situation, our main area of operations is South, Mid and West Wales but on request will provide support to other search and rescue teams outside of this area. We are volunteers. On call every day, of every month, of every year. Whatever the time, day or night. Whatever the weather. Saving lives. ## **DETAILS OF PERSONS OR BODIES ENTITLED TO APPOINT CHARITY TRUSTEES AND METHOD OF APPOINTMENT** Within the terms of the Constitution the Trustees are appointed by the membership of the Charity, this occurs at each Annual General Meeting and they hold office until the following AGM. The trustees must be members of the charity and can be up to 12 in number. Trustees are to stand down at the end of each year , They can stand for a maximum of 5 years. ## **FINANCIAL: GENERAL RESERVES** Reserves are that part of a charity’s unrestricted funds that is freely available to spend on any of the charity’s purposes. The Charity maintains designated reserves: - to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our work - to provide a level of funding for unexpected opportunities - to provide cover for risks such as unforeseen expenditure or unanticipated loss of income. The board of trustees will at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets. ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** The Trustees are satisfied with the financial position of the charity. ## **Grant Making:** During the last financial year, the Charity made no specific grants to any other charitable organisations. ## **DEVELOPMENT, ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS** During this year Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team had 49 incidents, working as an individual team and alongside other mountain rescues teams within South Wales, Coastguard and statutory emergency services. We now have 35 trained team members, with 10 support members. The trustees remain proud and confident that we are an effective and cohesive team. We have supported a number of local events, which have generated publicity and much needed income for the team, those being the Richard Burton 10km race, The 10 Y Fan charity walk and the Merthyr Mawr Pudding Race. We again have worked very closely with the other teams in the area and the trustees are confident that our working relationships with our colleagues in neighbouring teams remain excellent. ## **FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS** Investing our efforts in training new members allowing them to learn the skills to become effective mountain rescuers is one of our primary developments. Promoting mountain safety to members of the public to reduce the number of call outs the team receives is at the forefront of our activities. Vehicles remain our biggest asset and we are planning for the next refurbishment or replacement project. ## **VOLUNTEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES** The trustees would like to acknowledge and thank all the members for their hard work and commitment this year, special thanks go to the exec, the team officers and the party leaders for making sure things happen as and when they are supposed to. It is also important to recognise the families of our volunteers who support the team by supporting members to undertake the training and callouts throughout the year. ## **PUBLIC BENEFIT STATEMENT** The Trustees confirm they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the guidance published by the Charity Commission including public benefit guidance. Signed on behalf of the trustees by: N.McAllister **For the statements of our financial activities please see the details on the Charity Commission website** . CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl memborn of Westem Beacons Mountain Rescue Team On accounts for the year endod 31 MarGh 2022 Charity no (If any) 1180863 Set out on pages 3and4 I report to the trustees on my examin&ion of the accounts of the above chanty (Ihe Trust.) for the year ende(13110312022. Ro8ponslbilltios and ba818 of report As ttle charity's trustees, you are mp)n$ible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act"). I report in reswd of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in ¢arying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5){b) of the Act. Independent examinor'8 8tstement I have completed my examination. I c¥)nfim that no material matters have come to my attention in ¢onne¢tion with the examination (other than that disclosed below '> which gives me cause to believe that in, any material spect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charrties Act., or the accx)unts did not accord with the a¢￿untIng records I have no con￿M$ and have Come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination to which attention should te drawn in this report in order to enable a proper urKlerstanding of the accounts to be reactted. ' Pleas8 d8lele th8 Wtyds in the br8ck8ts rfth8y do not apply. Signed: Date: 28 January 2023 Name: Robert Denis Samuel Jones Relevant professional qualification(sl or body lif any): ACMA (Retired) Addross: 64 Austin Av￿ue Porthcawl CF36 5RS IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete If the examiner needs to highlight matenal matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of chanty accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detail* of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 1180863 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th• p•rfod Tc* 01. 31.Mar-22 Section A Receipts and payments Unrnstrfct•d R•8tMct•d lund¥ funds to Its np•rwt £ toth• nMr•rt£ ts th• to th• £ Endowm•nt Total fund• Last yur toth• rmfmt £ A1 RK•l Donati￿ts 23.113 40.091 ans MountAin Searth and T•* AR) 2J.1lJ 23.113 76.001 *n n¥ 23,113 A3P• •nts Vehiclas EqU1w￿￿t CommuThcsUcro Insuranc* 7.474 7.474 8,981 6,4b1 1.671 1,171 1,396 1,102 J,111 Fu 251 251 197 Sub total 14312 11292 S4.779 A4 A8Bet and In¥e•tment Sub total 18.292 Net of re¢elpW(payments) A5 Trdn8lèrs lundB A6 Cash lund8 last year end Cash funds thls year •nd Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unmtriet furxl$ nDxrBst £ R¢8tri¢ted fund• to n•Ar•Bt£ Endowment funds lo noargstf B1 Cash lund• 23.9TT 19,164 1,148 Tot•1 cash fun¢ts 25.133 20,312 UnrgBtrlct•d R•strlct•d fund• Endowm•nt lunds to £ Details to n•ar••¢ e Fwrtl iot*thbch Curr•ftt ¥•lu• OMI Details Fund towh* Details ¢o•t lopy0r￿> ¢urr•ni ¥•lu• B4 A••ets r•t¥ln•d fgr th• charlty'o own u•• Fund to*h*b Afflouth du• Wh•n du• Details BS Ll•bllttle• Signèd by om or hyo trusts8s on ha￿Of all the trustees Date of Robert WaliB 28101r2023 P4e4 Spre•Jshget¥erstyJn of CC188