## **Trustees Annual Report 2024 (CC)** Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue (BLSAR), is a group of volunteers, about 70 strong, who support Thames Valley Police in searching for, and rescuing vulnerable missing people, mainly in Berkshire. These individuals are likely to be depressed or suicidal, living with dementia, or suffering from poor mental health. As part of a national organisation, Lowland Rescue, our members are trained to national standards which allows them to support teams in surrounding counties to undertake searches, and further afield when required. The training and resources of the team allow us to deploy searchers on foot, on or in the water including the use of sonar, and the use of drones (RPAS). Once the missing person has been found members of the team have been trained to provide a high level of medical care. The training and resources also allow us to support Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) with water searches and provision of RPAS capability. In the past the team have assisted RBFRS with evacuation of homes in flood affected areas. We are also able to support other statutory agencies such as local authorities. Support has included the deployment of sand bags, and during the COVID crisis, the administration of vaccines. BLSAR relies on several different funding streams to provide the necessary finances to keep the team running. These streams include: payment for services provided such as marshalling and first aid cover at events such as the Bracknell Half Marathon and Wokingham Fireworks; donations from members of the public through bucket collections and money raised by families who have benefitted from searches conducted by the team; we have also been successful with several grant applications which have financed capital for new equipment and vehicles. The money raised is predominantly spent on the running costs of the team which currently runs at about £25,000 to £30,000 per annum. Purchasing of new, and replacement, equipment means that the team can provide the services as mentioned above. The team are currently in the process of trying to locate a new base where vehicles and equipment can be stored. To this end a proportion of the team income has been ring fenced for any work that maybe required to make premises serviceable for our needs. ## Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue (BLSAR) Toutley Depot, Forest Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 5QP treasurer@BerkshireRescue.org.uk www.BerkshireRescue.org.uk Tel: 0300 321 0384 ## **ACCOUNTS** # **FOR THE 12-MONTH PERIOD 1 APRIL 2023 – 31 MARCH 2024** **Charity No: 1202260** ## **Section A Receipts and payments (12 months)** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**8,243**
**24,516**
**671**
**1,013**
**129,714**
**826**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**8,243**
**24,516**
**671**
**1,013**
**129,714**
**826**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**5,408**
**-**
**-**
**2,627**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**5,408**
**-**
**-**
**2,627**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,243**
**29,924**
**671**
**1,013**
**132,341**
**826**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,243**
**29,924**
**671**
**1,013**
**132,341**
**826**|**12 month ended**
**31/03/2023**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Training Courses and Event Services|**8,243**||**-**||**-**||**8,243**||**-**| |Grants and Donations|**24,516**||**5,408**||**-**||**29,924**||**-**| |Merchandise and Equipment Sales|**671**||**-**||**-**||**671**||**-**| |Team reimbursments|**1,013**||**-**||**-**||**1,013**||**-**| |Merger of Charities|**129,714**||**2,627**||||**132,341**||**-**| |Other income|**826**||**-**||**-**||**826**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**164,983**||**8,035**||**-**||**173,017**||**-**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **|||||||||| ||**164,983**||**8,035**||**-**||**173,017**||**-**| ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Departmental Operations except Fundraising|**15,499**||**2,627**||**-**||**18,125**||**-**| |Fleet upkeep & fuel|**3,239**||**-**||**-**||**3,239**||**-**| |Training|**3,455**||**-**||**-**||**3,455**||**-**| |Insurance & Affiliation|**6,635**||**-**||**-**||**6,635**||**-**| |HQ Costs|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Misc/Admin|**140**||**-**||**-**||**140**||**-**| |Cost of Courses and Event Services|**40**||**-**||**-**||**40**||**-**| |Fundraising Costs|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**29,117**||**2,627**||**-**||**31,743**||**-**| ||||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**4,858**
**-**||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |**Titan Stretcher**|**4,858**||**-**||**-**||**4,858**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,858**||**-**||**-**||**4,858**||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts /(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||**33,975**||**2,627**||**-**||**36,601**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**||**136,416**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||| ||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**||**136,416**||**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the 12m period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Current Accounts||||**25,148**||**5,408**||**-**| ||Reserve Accounts||||**105,810**||||| ||Paypal||||**-**||||| ||Cash||||**50**||**-**||| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| ||Unclaimed VAT rebate||||**835**||||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||N/A||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**B4 Assets retained**
**for the charity’s own**
**use**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||Land SAR Equipment||||Unrestricted||||**4,300**| ||Medical Equipment eg
defibrillators||||Unrestricted||||**2,018**| ||Water SAR Equipment||||Unrestricted||||**3,451**| ||Sonar - Humminbird||||2 - Morrisons
Foundation||||**2,401**| ||Water Rescue Vehicle and boat
trailer||||DfT Maritime
Fund 2019||||**7,235**| ||Incident Control Unit||||Unrestricted||||**34,364**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| *The restricted funds relate to: ||**Opening**
**Balance**|**Received**|**Spent**|**Closing Balance**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1: TVP Police and Crime Commissioner - SARMAN|£ 20.00|£ -|£ 20.00|£ -| |2: Morrisons Foundation - Sonar|2,607.54
£||2,607.54
£|£ -| |3: Nurture Holdings - Equipment|-
£|2,408.36
£||£ 2,408.36| |4: Berkshire CommunityFoundation - Defibs||3,000.00
£||£ 3,000.00| |||||£ -| |||||£ -| |Total|2,627.54
£|5,408.36
£|2,627.54
£|5,408.36
£| ## **Signed by the treasurer and one trustee on behalf of all the trustees** |**Signature**|**Print Name**|**Date Approved**| |---|---|---| ||Nick McLean|30/05/24| ||Adam Waller|20/05/2024| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** ## **Report to the trustees/** Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue CIO **members of** **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **Charity no** 1202260 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 – 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/03/2024** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the CIO, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** 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: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 21[st] May 2024 **Name:** Karl Cantwell **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 16 Canada Road Erith DA8 2HE **October 2018** 5 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 6 **IER** ## Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue (BLSAR) Toutley Depot, Forest Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 5QP treasurer@BerkshireRescue.org.uk www.BerkshireRescue.org.uk Tel: 0300 321 0384 ## **ACCOUNTS** # **FOR THE 12-MONTH PERIOD 1 APRIL 2023 – 31 MARCH 2024** **Charity No: 1202260** ## **Section A Receipts and payments (12 months)** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**8,243**
**24,516**
**671**
**1,013**
**129,714**
**826**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**8,243**
**24,516**
**671**
**1,013**
**129,714**
**826**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**5,408**
**-**
**-**
**2,627**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**5,408**
**-**
**-**
**2,627**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,243**
**29,924**
**671**
**1,013**
**132,341**
**826**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,243**
**29,924**
**671**
**1,013**
**132,341**
**826**|**12 month ended**
**31/03/2023**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Training Courses and Event Services|**8,243**||**-**||**-**||**8,243**||**-**| |Grants and Donations|**24,516**||**5,408**||**-**||**29,924**||**-**| |Merchandise and Equipment Sales|**671**||**-**||**-**||**671**||**-**| |Team reimbursments|**1,013**||**-**||**-**||**1,013**||**-**| |Merger of Charities|**129,714**||**2,627**||||**132,341**||**-**| |Other income|**826**||**-**||**-**||**826**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**164,983**||**8,035**||**-**||**173,017**||**-**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **|||||||||| ||**164,983**||**8,035**||**-**||**173,017**||**-**| ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Departmental Operations except Fundraising|**15,499**||**2,627**||**-**||**18,125**||**-**| |Fleet upkeep & fuel|**3,239**||**-**||**-**||**3,239**||**-**| |Training|**3,455**||**-**||**-**||**3,455**||**-**| |Insurance & Affiliation|**6,635**||**-**||**-**||**6,635**||**-**| |HQ Costs|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Misc/Admin|**140**||**-**||**-**||**140**||**-**| |Cost of Courses and Event Services|**40**||**-**||**-**||**40**||**-**| |Fundraising Costs|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**29,117**||**2,627**||**-**||**31,743**||**-**| ||||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**4,858**
**-**||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |**Titan Stretcher**|**4,858**||**-**||**-**||**4,858**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,858**||**-**||**-**||**4,858**||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts /(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||**33,975**||**2,627**||**-**||**36,601**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**||**136,416**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||| ||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**||**136,416**||**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the 12m period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Current Accounts||||**25,148**||**5,408**||**-**| ||Reserve Accounts||||**105,810**||||| ||Paypal||||**-**||||| ||Cash||||**50**||**-**||| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**131,008**||**5,408**||**-**| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| ||Unclaimed VAT rebate||||**835**||||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||N/A||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**B4 Assets retained**
**for the charity’s own**
**use**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||Land SAR Equipment||||Unrestricted||||**4,300**| ||Medical Equipment eg
defibrillators||||Unrestricted||||**2,018**| ||Water SAR Equipment||||Unrestricted||||**3,451**| ||Sonar - Humminbird||||2 - Morrisons
Foundation||||**2,401**| ||Water Rescue Vehicle and boat
trailer||||DfT Maritime
Fund 2019||||**7,235**| ||Incident Control Unit||||Unrestricted||||**34,364**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| *The restricted funds relate to: ||**Opening**
**Balance**|**Received**|**Spent**|**Closing Balance**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1: TVP Police and Crime Commissioner - SARMAN|£ 20.00|£ -|£ 20.00|£ -| |2: Morrisons Foundation - Sonar|2,607.54
£||2,607.54
£|£ -| |3: Nurture Holdings - Equipment|-
£|2,408.36
£||£ 2,408.36| |4: Berkshire CommunityFoundation - Defibs||3,000.00
£||£ 3,000.00| |||||£ -| |||||£ -| |Total|2,627.54
£|5,408.36
£|2,627.54
£|5,408.36
£| ## **Signed by the treasurer and one trustee on behalf of all the trustees** |**Signature**|**Print Name**|**Date Approved**| |---|---|---| ||Nick McLean|30/05/24| ||Adam Waller|20/05/2024| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** ## **Report to the trustees/** Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue CIO **members of** **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **Charity no** 1202260 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 – 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/03/2024** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the CIO, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** 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: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 21[st] May 2024 **Name:** Karl Cantwell **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 16 Canada Road Erith DA8 2HE **October 2018** 5 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 6 **IER**