## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01.11.2024 Period start date To 31.10.25 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.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||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, a senior operational**
**team, search teams and support services.**
**It is our search teams who undertake our**
**search and rescue operations and form**
**the bedrock of the charity’s activities.**
**Our search teams are on-call to attend**
**any call-outs day or night within the**
**whole of the Greater London area.**| 1 **During the year the charity organised continuous development and training for existing search operatives and organised training for new search operatives. The search teams and support services teams are managed and supervised by an operations 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 2025, London Search and Rescue was**
**called out to assist emergency services**
**in the operation of search and rescue of**
**missing and vulnerable people on 27**
**occasions totalling 1286 hours of**
**volunteer search activity.**
**These searches have benefitted the**
**individuals concerned, their friends and**
**family and the wider community.**| 2 ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At 31 October 2025 cash at bank totalled**
**£13,349 (2024: £142,580), of which £4,595**
**(2024: £35,016) related to unrestricted**
**income funds and £8,754 (2024: £107,564)**
**to restricted income funds.**
**In addition as at 31 October 2025 the**
**charity held £14,610 in an investment**
**account with CCLA Investment**
**Management, of which £5,830 related to**
**unrestricted funds and £8,780 to**
**restricted funds.**
**Therefore across cash at bank and the**
**investment account as at 31 October**
**2025 total restricted funds were £10,425**
**and unrestricted funds and £17,534**
**restricted funds.**
**Total income received was £202,464**
**(2024: £111,780), of which £59,514 was**
**unrestricted and £142,950 restricted.**
**Significant restricted donations included**
**£70,000 from London Freemasons for the**
**purchase and fit out of a new Bike**
**Support Unit van, and £20,000 also from**
**London Freemasons to enhance water**
**safety provision along the river Thames.**
**Total expenditure was £227,442 (2024:**
**£31,000) plus a further £90,253 (2024:**
**£95,247) on vehicles and associated**
**search technology & equipment, noted in**
**the accounts as vehicle asset. The**
**significant increase in spend from 2024**
**to 2025 reflects the charity putting the**
**significant funds held at 2024 year end to**
**good use on much needed operational kit**
**and training.**| |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 basic**
**running costs in the event that income**
**levels decrease substantially due to**
**unforeseen circumstances.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Unrestricted Reserve: £10,425 (2024:**
**£35,016)**
**Restricted Reserve: £17,534 (2024:**
**£107,564)**
**Total Reserve: £27,959 (2024: £142,580)**| 3 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The charity is governed by its**
**constitution.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|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 office (chair only)**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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 pack which**
**describes the structure of the charity and**
**explains the obligations and**
**responsibilities of trustees. Following**
**nomination / election trustees are offered**
**legal training to review their legal**
**obligations.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Over the course of the year the charity**
**has evolved its leadership structure to**
**align more closely with our core purpose**
**of search and rescue. We have moved**
**away from a senior leadership team**
**model to a model where the focus is on**
**our operations (i.e. searches), sitting**
**alongside support services.**
**Previously, the senior leadership team**
**led across a wide range of activities**
**including operational delivery, training,**
**finance, fundraising, HR,**
**communications and other support**
**services. Under the new model, the**
**Operations team has a narrower remit**
**centred on search operations and**
**training. Functions such as finance,**
**fundraising, communications and HR**
**continue to remain essential to the**
**charity's continued success but these**
**areas are now being managed through**
**separate structures. This provides clearer**
**accountabilities and ensures that we**
**focus on delivering excellence in the**
**charity's core activities.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**None**| 4 ||||| |---|---|---|---| ||Other||**The board maintains a register of**
**conflicts which is periodically reviewed**
**to ensure it remains current. In this**
**respect, trustee Steve Wood has declared**
**a conflict in respect of software he**
**provides to both the charity and tothe**
**Met Police which the charity monitors.**
**The board has a schedule of meetings set**
**out for the year to ensure that it**
**maintains oversight of the charity’s**
**finances.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**London Search and Rescue**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**LONSAR or LondonSAR**| |Registered charity number|**1182257**| |Charity’s principal address|**The Warren, Croydon Road, Hayes, Bromley, BR2 7AL.**| ||| |1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---|---| ||Paul Lewis|Chair|| ||Sean McCarry||| ||Steve Wood||| ||Chris Murphy||| ||Duncan Hardy||Resigned 28 October 2025| ||Marie-Claire O’Hara|Charity Secretary|| ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** P Lewis **Full name(s)** Paul Lewis **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 31 August 2026 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**|Charity Name
London Search and Rescue
31 October 2025
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1192257
7&8
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the charity”) for the year ended 31/10/2025.| **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’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. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** 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:** _KR Moss_ **Date:** 14/08/2026 **Name:** Kathleen Moss **Relevant professional** Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 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 2024 31 October 2025 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**58,011**
**1,301**
**-**
**202**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**142,950**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Fundraising|**58,011**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**200,961**
**1,301**
**-**
**202**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**202,464**|**95,282**
**6,551**
**9,694**
**253**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |Operations|**1,301**|||||| |Training|**-**|||||| |Support|**202**|||||| |Trustees and Directors(insurance and other)|**-**||**-**|**-**||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**142,950**
**11,289**
**11,289**
**154,239**
**2,137**
**79,697**
**7,777**
**56,824**
**1,426**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**147,861**
**20,069**
**-**
**85,118**
**105,186**
**253,048**
**-**
**98,809**
**-**
**107,563**
**8,754**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_**|**59,514**|||||**111,780**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||| |Withdrawals CCLA investment account|**6,711**|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**18,000**
**-**
**18,000**|**-**
**-**| |Vehicle|**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_**|**6,711**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||**-**|**220,464**|**111,780**| |||||||| |Fundraising|**3,642**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,779**
**114,143**
**19,702**
**78,833**
**8,985**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**227,442**|**330**
**18,919**
**5,854**
**5,169**
**728**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |Operations|**34,446**|||||| |Training|**11,925**|||||| |Support|**22,009**|||||| |Trustees and Directors (insurance and other)|**7,559**|||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_**|**79,581**|||||**31,000**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||| |
Payments to CCLA investment account|**11,931**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**32,000**
**5,135**
**85,118**
**122,253**|**-**
**-**
**95,247**| |IT assets|**5,135**|||||| |Vehicles|**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_**|**17,066**|||||**95,247**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||**-**|**349,695**|**126,247**| |||||||| ||**-**
**30,421**|||**-**|
**-**
**129,230**|**-**
**14,467**| ||**-**|||**-**
**-**|**-**
**142,579**|**-**
**157,047**| ||**35,016**|||||| ||**4,595**|||**-**|
**13,349**|**142,580**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Cash on hand
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**4,595**
**-**
**-**|**8,754**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**| |||**4,595**|**8,754**|**-**| 7 |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Stock
**Details**
CCLA investment account
CCLA investment account
**Details**
**Details**

Computer Equipment
Vehicles
Loan
Signature|OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestrcited
**5,220**
Restricted
**8,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
LonSAR
**38,512**
LonSAR
**146,987**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
3,000
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|OK| |---|---|---|---| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**5,830**| ||||**8,780**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| 8