## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Day|Month|Year||Day||Month|Year| |**From**|**1st**|**OCT**|**2021**|**To**|**28th**||**FEB**|**2023**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM SEARCH AND RESCUE UK **Other names charity is known by** ERT SAR UK **Registered charity number (if any) 1196312 Charity's principal address** ERTSAR, c/o BBD Perfect Storm 1 OLIVER'S YARD 4th Floor 55-71 City Road London **Postcode EC1Y 1HQ** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** (Appendix A) |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Gary Foo|Chair|_Whole Year_|| ||Paul Giles|Treasurer|_Whole Year_|| ||Virginia Foo||_Whole Year_|| ||Christopher Kendall||_Whole Year_|| ||Dr Iain McNeil||_Whole Year_|| ||Mohammed Asfandeyar Niazi||_Whole Year_|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees*)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Gary FOO ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Governing Document: Constitution. SOPs govern operations. (eg. trust deed, constitution) A Charity Incorporated Organization (CIO) with no limit on members. How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are Appointed. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** ERT SAR additionally required to maintain common best practice and legal requirements for humanitarian, medical, rescue and community-based service and other types of organisations etc. The leadership team meet and speak very frequently and have proactive meetings and training to support the needed governance and administration of the organization as a whole. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** We were established to provide relief and assistance of people in the UK or any part of the world who are the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe in particular by the supply of medical aid or search & rescue service to such persons. We provide training and education to support and that build capacity and resilience. We are also the umbrella body to other organisations. **TAR** 2 ## **SUMMARY** The Emergency Response Team Search and Rescue UK (ERT SAR) is a UK based national and international Disaster Response organization It is properly organized like an Emergency Service with a structured command and control leadership which aids in the efficiency and safety of the team in an operational setting with associated connections with other organisations which have similar and distinctly different names, but all in the pursuit of ensuring the provision of relief and assistance to people in the time of need. ## **PUBLIC BENEFIT** In all ERTSAR activities the Founding Trustees established this charity to be free from external influence and pressure which may negatively affect and impact a person’s human rights and the public and humanitarian benefit. ERT SAR aims to support and help anyone and everyone regardless of their religion, race, sex, age etc and indeed aims to support all EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) best practice. There is no specific restriction on who receives the benefit and ‘anyone or victim of disasters and emergencies who needs it’ and in as broad and area as we can help, is the general approach pursuant to the charitable aims. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** ## **ACTIVITIES** The ERT SAR organization provides relief and assistance of people in the UK or any part of the world who are the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe in particular by the supply of medical aid or search & rescue service to such persons. This includes but is not limited to Search, Rescue, Safety, Security, Leadership, Management, Medical and Logistical services. We also provide comprehensive training and education to support and that build capacity and resilience with the people and communities. We are also the umbrella body to other such organisations. **In planning our activities, we always keep in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on greater public benefit, at trustee meetings.** **TAR** 3 Achievements and performance ## Section D **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The achievements during this fiscal and reporting period revolved around the establishing of the CIO and specifically building and developing the specific administrative and operational activities which would be to the public benefit in a way that ensures that we are able to support the public with the services we provide as well as develop ongoing connections and develop strategic plans and support. Most all of these was done without any public donations or income, per se, although we expect that to change moving forward. We have a lot of donated services and operational resources (from accounting and book keeping support to administrative and communications services ensuring that we are set up moving forward.) We can report that during this period we - Trained people in various resilience programs - Built capacity in local and remote communities - Developed a program for youth in schools and communities - Created freely available resources and training programs - Put out safety and caring messages on several media and channels - Created mental health initiatives and education programs - Supported other organisations in mutually beneficial areas - Established new training and community safety initiatives - Assisted with search, rescue, medical and humanitarian services At the end of the year we neither reported a loss and gain in income. . **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The Trustees have examined the charity's requirements for reserves in light of the main risks to the organisation. It established an original policy whereby once the more proactive fundraising and donations start coming in that the unrestricted funds not committed and held by the charity should be no less than £1000 initially. That being said there are no financial transactions yet this fiscal. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** _NONE_ **Further financial review details (Optional information)** As stated above, there are no financial transactions yet this fiscal and all activities have been freely supported with any payments (such as phones and website hosting etc) being freely donated at this time. ## **Section F** ## **Other optional information** ## **Section G** ## **Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** GARY FOO **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 8 March 2024 **TAR** 5 THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM SEARCH & RESCUE UK **1196312** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1 October 2021 28 Feb 2023 Period end date ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds** **to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** **to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |Zero in this fiscal|**GBP**
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8 March 2024| ## **Categories Details** Zero in this fiscal ## **B1 Cash funds** ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R2 accounts (SS)