## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/11/23 Period start date To 31/10/24** ## **Period end date** **Charity name: London Search and Rescue** ## **Charity registration number: 1192257** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the charity are to preserve and**
**protect life.**| |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|**In pursuit of the charity’s objects, London**
**Search and Rescue provides and maintains an**
**emergency search and rescue service for the**
**benefit of the public by:**
**(1) The provision of a dedicated and trained**
**volunteer service to assist the emergency**
**services in the operation of search and**
**rescue within London; and**
**(2) By the provision of support to other**
**search and rescue organisations across**
**the UK if called upon and able to do so.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees confirm that in fulfilling their**
**obligations and discharging their duties in**
**respect of London Search and Rescue that they**
**have regard to the guidance issued by the**
**Charity Commission on public benefit.**| |||| ||SORP
reference|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**London Search and Rescue is a charity run**
**entirely by volunteers. Our volunteers consist of**
**trustees, the senior leadership team, support**
**services and operational teams.**
**It is our operational teams who undertake our**
**search and rescue operations and form the**
**bedrock of the charity’s activities. Our**
**operational teams are on-call to attend any call-**
**outs day or night within the whole of the Greater**
**London area.**
**During the year the charity organised continuous**
**development and training for existing search**
**operatives and organised training for new search**
**operatives.**| 1 **The operational teams are supported by volunteers with considerable expertise in specialist support including IT, data management, human resources, communications and marketing, risk management and legal.** **The operational teams and support services teams are managed and supervised by a senior leadership team that reports to the trustees.** ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
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.|Para 1.20|**In the year from 1 November 2023 to 31 October**
**2024, London Search and Rescue has been called**
**out to assist emergency services in the operation**
**of search and rescue of missing and vulnerable**
**people on 29 occasions totalling 1,344 hours of**
**volunteer search activity.**
**These searches have benefitted the individuals**
**concerned, their loved ones and the wider**
**community.**| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At 31 October 2024 cash at bank totalled**
**£142,580 (2023: £157,046), of which £35,016**
**(2023: £21,903) related to unrestricted income**
**funds and £107,564 (2023: £135,143) to restricted**
**income funds.**
**Total income received was £111,780 (2023:**
**£204,047).**
**Total expenditure was £31,000 (2023: £27,058)**
**plus a further £95,247 (2023: £130,437) on**
**vehicles and associated search technology &**
**equipment, noted in the accounts as vehicle**
**asset.**
**As per prior year’s report, a £20,000 deposit was**
**paid to a company supplying the original vehicle**
**that subsequently went into administration; the**
**charity continues to pursue recovering this**
**money.**
**The charity received unrestricted income funds**
**totalling £34,720 (2023: £14,047) generated via**
**various fundraising activities, donations, and**
**grants for which we continue to be exceptionally**| |---|---|---| 2 |||**grateful to all contributors. The funds have**
**helped to improve the operational capabilities,**
**including running medical courses, upgrading**
**and replacing much needed equipment and to**
**pay for the running costs of the existing incident**
**control vehicles.**
**The charity also successfully applied for several**
**grants, whilst all notable, the significant ones**
**included £57,000 to secure a new water vehicle**
**which will enhance the water team’s deployment**
**capabilities. A £14,400 National Lottery grant to**
**buy specialist equipment for the Search**
**Technician teams and £3,520 for a new stretcher.**
**In total restricted income funds received in the**
**year were £77,060 (2023: £190,000)**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Incomes received during the year are spent to**
**achieve the stated aims, objectives and activities**
**of the charity and in line with any requirements**
**of donors or grant awarding bodies. Any surplus**
**funds are carried forward to be utilised in future**
**years. The charity aims to hold only sufficient**
**unrestricted reserves to cover one year of**
**running costs in the event that income levels**
**decrease substantially due to unforeseen**
**circumstances.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Unrestricted Reserve: £35,016 (£2023: £21,904)**
**Restricted Reserve: £107,564 (2023: £135,143)**
**Total Reserve: £142,580 (2023: £157,047)**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|
Para 1.25|**The Charity is governed by its Constitution.**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**The Charity is a charitable incorporated**
**organisation (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|**Trustees can be appointed in three ways:**
**(1) By election**
**(2) By nomination (with the nomination entity**
**being the Board of Trustees)**
**(3) Ex officio (chair only)**| 3 ## **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|**Prior to nomination / election trustees are**
**provided with an information and briefing pack**
**which clearly defines their responsibilities and**
**obligations. Following nomination / election,**
**trustees are offered legal training to review their**
**legal obligations in more depth and established**
**trustees are offered refresher training on their**
**legal obligations.**
**These policies and procedures are currently the**
**subject of a review and refresh as part of the**
**charity’s overall focus on improving and**
**strengthening its governance. In this respect the**
**charity has recently appointed a Charity**
**Secretary as well as a number of support**
**specialists to support improved governance.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The operational teams and support services**
**teams are managed and supervised by a Senior**
**Leadership Team (SLT). The SLT reports to the**
**trustees formally through reports to the Trustees**
**ahead of Trustee board meetings and informally**
**as necessary and appropriate.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**None**| |Other||**The Board of Trustees operates a risk register**
**and a register of conflicts, both of which**
**documents are periodically reviewed to ensure**
**they remain current.**
**The Board of Trustees has a schedule of**
**meetings set out for the year to ensure that risks,**
**finance and funding are continuously reviewed,**
**as well as other issues that arise during the**
**course of the year. The trustees also meet**
**informally from time to time when necessary and**
**are on hand to deal with urgent issues that might**
**arise.**| 4 ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**London Search and Rescue**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**LONSAR or LondonSAR**| |Registered charity number|**1192257**| |Charity’s principal address|**The Warren, Croydon Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7AL.**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (ifany)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **| |---|---|---|---| ||**Paul Lewis**|**Chair**|| ||**Sean McCarry**|**Internal**
**development**|| ||**Steve Wood**|**Operational**
**development**|| ||**Steve McGowan**|**Training and**
**accreditation**|Resigned 15 May 2025| ||**Chris Murphy**|**Support services**|Appointed 22 July2024| ||**Duncan Hardy**|**Support services**|Appointed 22 July2024| ||**Marie-Claire**
**O'Hara**|**Support services**|Appointed 30 September 2024| ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Paul Lewis
Position (eg Secretary, Chair
Chair, etc)
Date
5th August 2025
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5 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** |**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**| |---|---| |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**|Charity Name
London Search and Rescue
31 October 2024
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1192257
7&8
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/10/2024.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect:
•
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act; or
•
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
•
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.| |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|_KRMoss_|05/08/2025| |---|---|---| |||| ||Kathleen Moss|| |||| ||Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.|| |||| ||48 Lawn Terrace, London, SE3 9LP|| |||| **IER** 6 **Charity Name No (if any) London Serach and Rescue 1192257 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01 November 2023 31 October 2024 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Fundraising
**23,882**
Operations
**1,891**
Training
**8,694**
Support
**253**|||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**71,400**
**4,660**
**1,000**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**95,282**
**6,551**
**9,694**
**253**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,780**
**330**
**18,919**
**5,854**
**5,169**
**728**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,000**
**-**
**95,247**
**95,247**
**126,247**
**-**
**14,467**
**-**
**157,047**

**142,580**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Fundraising|**23,882**||**71,400**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**95,282**|**8,947**| |Operations|**1,891**||**4,660**|||**6,551**|**192,134**| |Training|**8,694**||**1,000**|||**9,694**|**2,500**| |Support|**253**||**-**|||**253**|**467**| |Trustees and Directors(insurance and o|
**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|
**34,720**||**77,060**|||**111,780**|**204,047**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| |Kit Loan|**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| |Vehicle|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||**-**|**111,780**|**204,047**| ||||||||| |Fundraising|**330**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**330**|**-**| |Operations|**9,527**|||||**18,919**|**15,835**| |Training|**5,854**|||||**5,854**|**2,561**| |Support|**5,169**|||||**5,169**|**3,306**| |Trustees and Directors (insurance and
other)|**728**|||||**728**|**5,356**| ||**-**|||||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**21,608**|||||**31,000**|**27,058**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| |
Kit Loan|**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| |Vehicle|**-**|||||**95,247**|**130,437**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**95,247**|**130,437**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||**-**|**126,247**|**157,495**| ||||||||| ||**13,112**||||**-**|**-**
**14,467**|**46,552**| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**21,904**|||||**157,047**|**110,495**| ||**35,016**||||**-**|
**142,580**|**157,047**| 7 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
Loan
**Details**
**Details**
Computer Equipment
Vehicles
**Details**
**Details**
Stock
Cash on hand
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**35,016**
**107,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,016**
**107,564**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
33,378
**-**
61,869
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
3,000
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Steve Wood|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Steve Wood|05Aug25| ||||| 8