South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team/Tim Achub Ogofau De a Chanolbarth Cymru

The object of the Team shall be to relieve suffering and distress amongst persons or animals endangered by accident or natural hazards underground by the provision, at the request of the police, of search and rescue for any persons or animals endangered.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £16,435 and spent £16,707.

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

Down 74%, from £63,923 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £16,435 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 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 December 2025: Not reported. 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 2012.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• David DunbarChairAppointed 20 January 2019
• Alan BraybrookeAppointed 20 January 2001
• Daniel GorstAppointed 18 January 2026
• Gary MitchellAppointed 13 January 2008
• Ian HolmesAppointed 19 January 2025
• James WaiteAppointed 21 January 2024
• Paul CraddyAppointed 16 January 2022
• Spencer Tony Drew FCA DippfsAppointed 13 January 2008
• Stefan DaviesAppointed 24 January 2010
• Sue GoodheadAppointed 18 January 2015

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

1016463

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

21 January 1993

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 30 JUNE 1991 AS AMENDED 20 JANUARY 2002, 4 MAY 2003 AND 24 JANUARY 2010. as amended on 20 Jan 2019 as amended on 17 Jan 2021 as amended on 19 Jan 2025 as amended on 18 Jan 2026

Website

www.smwcrt.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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

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