The South Wales Search and Rescue Association

Relief of suffering and distress amongst persons endangered by accidents or natural hazards in South and Mid-Wales, but without geographical limitations. To provide adequate arrangements for the secure and efficient search and rescue of any person or persons so endangered. To act as an intermediary between local Mountain Rescue Teams and the national body the Mountain Rescue Council

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: South and Mid Wales But Without Geographic Limitation

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £24,542 and spent £18,754.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 113%, from £11,537 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £24,542 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 76% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £7,800 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £5,000, awarded in 2014.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Philip Mark LewisChairAppointed 8 December 2015
• Leonard HarbottleAppointed 4 July 2013
• Paul Francis FordAppointed 2 June 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1004247

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

26 September 1991

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 26/06/1991AS AMENDED ON 20/04/1994AS AMENDED ON 26/04/1997AS AMENDED ON 18/05/1999AS AMENDED ON 20/05/2002AS AMENDED ON 13/04/2003AS AMENDED ON 06/11/2007AS AMENDED ON 08/11/2012 as amended on 19 May 2020

Website

www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/teams-and-regions/regions/south-wales-search-and-rescue-associatioAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth