North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation

North Wales Cave Rescue Organisation provides an underground rescue service for caves and disused mines in North Wales in support of North Wales Police, who initiate all rescue callouts. Our activities include responding to rescue callouts from the Police, training our members and maintaining our equipment.

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

In Wales

• Conwy
• Isle of Anglesey
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Wrexham
• Gwynedd

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined in Practice N Wales and Merseyside Police Areas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 January 2025, it had income of £13,390 and spent £11,275.

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 731%, from £1,612 in the year to 31 January 2021 to £13,390 in the year to 31 January 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 84% of its income in the year to 31 January 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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 January 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Anthony Robert HaighAppointed 25 June 2023
• David Phillip JonesAppointed 14 June 2025
• Elizabeth Jane Marian ShanklinAppointed 4 July 2026
• Gareth Mark StonelyAppointed 23 June 2024
• Jonty PineAppointed 7 September 2026
• Laura Catherine HarrisonAppointed 4 July 2026
• Oliver Douglas Spencer RayAppointed 14 June 2025
• Robin Geraint JonesAppointed 25 June 2023
• Tom HowardAppointed 25 June 2023

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

1052986

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 February 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 5 JULY 1995 AS AMENDED 11 JANUARY 1996 as amended on 23 Jun 2024

Website

www.northwalescro.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Conwy

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

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