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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||DR J HICKMAN|CHAIR||| ||DR R SPEKE|TREASURER||| ||DR E FORD|VICE CHAIR|01/04/2024 to
05/11/2024|| ||MR A NEWLAND||01/04/2024 to
05/11/2024|| ||DR J SEDDON|SECRETARY &
BASICS SW
REPRESENTATIVE|01/04/2024 to
05/11/2024|| ||MR C SUTTON||05/11/2024 to
31/03/2025|| ||MR M PEARSON||05/11/2024 to
31/03/2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||| |**ACCOUNTANT**|LENTELLS LIMITED||17-18 LEACH ROAD, CHARD, SOMERSET, TA20 1FA| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| ||||| |**Section B Structure, governance and management**|||| |**Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 07/06/1972 AS AMENDED BY
RESOLUTION DATED 05/06/1974 AS ADMENDED ON 30/11/2004 AS
AMENDED ON 23/11/2010 AS AMENDED ON 12/11/2012 AS AMENDED
7/11/2023
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
TRUST
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SHALL INCLUDE, AS A MINIMUM, A
CHAIRMAN, SECRETARY AND TREASURER. AT LEAST ONE
MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SHALL BE AN ACTIVE
MEDICAL MEMBER OF SERVICE. THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MAY CO-OPT ADDITIONAL MEMBERS WHO MAY VOTE ON ALL
MATTERS EXCEPT THOSE RESERVED BY THE NON-CO-OPTED
MEMBERS FOR THEIR OWN DECISION, THE CHAIRMAN SHALL
HAVE THE CASTING VOTE IN CASE VOTING SHALL BE EQUAL. AT
ANY MEETING, ATTENDANCE OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE
COMMITTEE SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM, PROVIDED AT LEAST
ONE IS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.|||| |||

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 07/06/1972 AS AMENDED BY
RESOLUTION DATED 05/06/1974 AS ADMENDED ON 30/11/2004 AS
AMENDED ON 23/11/2010 AS AMENDED ON 12/11/2012 AS AMENDED
7/11/2023|| |||
TRUST|| |||
THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SHALL INCLUDE, AS A MINIMUM, A
CHAIRMAN, SECRETARY AND TREASURER. AT LEAST ONE
MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SHALL BE AN ACTIVE
MEDICAL MEMBER OF SERVICE. THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MAY CO-OPT ADDITIONAL MEMBERS WHO MAY VOTE ON ALL
MATTERS EXCEPT THOSE RESERVED BY THE NON-CO-OPTED
MEMBERS FOR THEIR OWN DECISION, THE CHAIRMAN SHALL
HAVE THE CASTING VOTE IN CASE VOTING SHALL BE EQUAL. AT
ANY MEETING, ATTENDANCE OF MORE THAN HALF OF THE
COMMITTEE SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM, PROVIDED AT LEAST
ONE IS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.|| ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 2 You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING SICKNESS OR INJURY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF IMMEDIATE MEDICAL TREATMENT TO ANY PERSON INJURED IN ANY SERIOUS ACCIDENT OR MEDICAL EMERGENCY WITHIN SOMERSET AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES VOLUNTARY PROVISION OF IMMEDIATE PREHOSPITAL MEDICAL CARE WORKING IN SUPPORT OF SOUTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** THE TRUSTEES HAVE HAD REGARD TO THE GUIDANCE ISSUED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION ON PUBLIC BENEFIT. THE CHARITY ASSISTS THE COMMUNITY IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAVING OF LIVES. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. SAVES RESPONDERS ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO GIVE THEIR TIME FREELY TO RESPOND IN SUPPORT OF SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST (SWASFT). FUNDING FROM THE SOMERSET CLINCIAL COMMISSIONING GROUP IS PREDOMINENTLY USED FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES FOR ACTIVE SAVES RESPONDERS FOLLOWING THE PRINCIPLE THAT, WHILST THEY GIVE THEIR TIME FREELY, THEY SHOULD NOT BE “OUT OF POCKET” AS A RESULT OF THEIR WORK. SOME FUNDING IS ALSO MADE AVAILABLE TO EMPLOYERS/PARTNERSHIPS OF SAVES RESPONDERS IN RECOGNITION OF CALL OUTS DURING WORKING HOURS TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE THE RELEASE OF DOCTORS TO RESPOND TO SAVES CALLS. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** �� !�"� ��#�� $��%�!�� &�� '��(��)�� *��&�� *�� %��+��)�� +��,� ��!�-��)�� .��&��,��/��/�� &��/��+��,/��!�� &��,�� .��&�� .��&��/�!��%�� "� '��(��)�� %��+��)�� &��.�+�� #�� .��,�� &��&�� ,��.��&��.�/��.�� $��'��(��)��$��-��)��-�+0&+� +��!��.�� .�� /��/�+�*1+� �� "� - ��,�� - �� - ��,�� - ��2�� - �� 3�� - �� -��!��+�*1+��!��45� �� **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p `o` 6�"�� `o` 6�"�� `o` 6�"�� `o` 6�"�� #��.��,��,��!�� ,��!��,��.��,�� ,��!��7�� !��+��0&-�� ,��8�� ,��9��4��,��:�� -��,�&#$��.�� ,�$��+�� ;��,��&�� ,�� .��/��!�,� ��.�� ,��.��.��.��,3�� ,�� $��<��+��!��!��,��,��/� ��.�� .�� .��&��.�+��)��#��9��,� ��:��&�� ,��.�� )��$��+��$��-��)�� ,� $��!� ��;��/� �� .��!��,��7�� /�!��/��!�� +�*1+��.��.��!��.�� =��,��.��.��0&-�� %��.��,�� ,�!��)��.��.,��&��.� +�� >��?�� ,��?��.�� !��.��(��,�� .�� +��(�!��,�� /��/��?��.�� 9!��&&#��$��!��)��.��.��:�� ,�� ,��;��.��;��/� �� >��.�� +�� .��.��!�� +�� **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** UNRESTRICTED RESERVES ARE HELD IN THE CHARITY’S BANK **Brief statement of the** ACCOUNTS TO SUPPORT ITS ONGOING WORK IN THE **charity’s policy on reserves** COMMUNITY. THE CHARITY IS SATISFIED THAT IT HAS SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT RESPONDERS FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE **Details of any funds materially in deficit** NONE ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** DURING THE YEAR 3 TRUSTEES AND THEIR EMPLOYERS/PARTNERSHIPS WERE REIMBURSED OUT OF POCKET ACTIVE SAVE RESPONDER EXPENSES TOTALLING £2,258 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHARITY’S POLICY (PREVIOUS PERIOD 3 TRUSTEES, EXPENSES £2,597). ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|
Richard Speke
~~Signed on 04 November 2025 @ 19:57~~|JamesHickman
~~Signed on 11 November 2025 @ 18:34~~| |---|---|---| ||DR RICHARD SPEKE
|DR JAMES HICKMAN
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TREASURER|| |||| |||| **TAR** March **2012** 6 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name SOMERSET ACCIDENT VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE **members of On accounts for the year** 31 MARCH 2025 **Charity no** 264354 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 9 to 10 (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 31/03/2025. - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 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: - 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:** Robert Wegner **Date:** ~~Countersigned on 12 November 2025 @ 08:48~~ **Name:** MR ROBERT WEGNER FCCA **Relevant professional** ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS (ACCA) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 17-18 LEACH ROAD, CHARD BUSINESS PARK, CHARD, SOMERSET TA20 1FA **October 2018** **IER** 7 **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** NONE **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 8 **IER** ## **Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service** **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,622**
**16,250**
**256**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,128**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,128**
**2,236**
**4,534**
**1,020**
**2,894**
**180**
**60**
**1,200**
**12,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,124**
**6,004**
**-**
**108,717**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,622**
**16,250**
**256**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,128**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,128**
**2,236**
**4,534**
**1,020**
**2,894**
**180**
**60**
**1,200**
**12,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,124**
**6,004**
**-**
**108,717**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**- 334**
**-**
**4,375**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,446**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,780**
**- 334**
**-**
**4,375**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**23,068**
**16,250**
**256**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,574**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**23,068**
**16,250**
**256**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,574**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Year to 31**
**March 2024**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|**1,622**||||||||**6,814**| |NHS Contract - communityservices|**16,250**||||||||**26,000**| |Interest received|**256**||||||||**193**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**18,128**||||||||**33,007**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||**39,574**||**33,007**| ||||||||**2,236**
**4,534**
**22,800**
**2,894**
**180**
**60**
**-**
**1,200**
**-**
**33,904**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**33,904**
**5,670**||| |Insurance|**2,236**||||||||**2,040**| |Response vehicle expenses|**4,534**||||||||**-**| |Medical & other eqiupment expenses|**1,020**||||||||**1,335**| |Responder reimbursed expenses|**2,894**||||||||**3,055**| |Subscriptions|**180**||||||||**180**| |Other adminstrative expenses|**60**||||||||**240**| |Honorarium|||||||||**800**| |Accountancy|**1,200**||||||||**420**| |Trainingexpenses|||||||||**1,037**| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,124**||||||||**9,107**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**9,107**| ||||||||||| ||**6,004**||**- 334**||**-**||**5,670**||**23,900**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**108,717**||**4,375**||**-**||**113,092**||**89,193**| ||**114,721**||**4,041**||**-**||**118,762**||**113,092**| 9 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
|Signature
Lloyds fixed term deposit account 1
Accountancy
Reimbursed responders expenses
**Details**
**Details**
Personal Protective Equipment
Electrical equipment & monitoring
Kit bags
Blue-light and audible equipment
Lloyds Treasurer's account
Lloyds Savings account
Lloyds fixed term deposit account 2
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
NHS contract (Jan 25 to Mar 25)
**Details**

RichardSpeke
~~Signed on 04 November 2025 @ 19:5~~7
James Hickman
Signed on 11 November 2025 @ 18:34|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**16,082**
**4,041**
**639**
**-**
**50,000**
**48,000**
**-**
**114,721**
**4,041**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**1,260**
Unrestricted
**151**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
DR RICHARD SPEKE
DRJAMESHICKMAN

|**Endowment**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| ||||| Signature Print Name Richard S eke ~~Signed on 04 November 2025 @ 19:5~~ p 7 DR RICHARD SPEKE DR JAMES HICKMAN James Hickman Signed on 11 November 2025 @ 18:34 10 CCXX R2 accounts (SS)