Severn Area Rescue Association

Lifeboat and inland search and rescue, including flood and cliff rescue and missing person search, on the Severn, Wye, Usk and other rivers, and across Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and parts of SE Wales, Herefordshire and beyond. Activities were conducted by SARA as Charity 505504 prior to 1 Jan 2022

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

Elsewhere

• Gloucestershire
• Shropshire
• Herefordshire
• Worcestershire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £403,956 and spent £310,631.

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 47%, from £274,205 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £403,956 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 77% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

23% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£92,464).

Largest funder

Glos OPPC Grant gave £5,000 in the year to 31 December 2024, 1% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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: £90,464 from 23 grants. Government contracts: £2,000 from 1 contract.

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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity named 1 funder who gave £5,000. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 4 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £12,150.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher John BurgessAppointed 23 March 2025
• David HillAppointed 22 March 2026
• Gareth RaymondAppointed 27 October 2024
• Judith Mary HarveyAppointed 8 May 2022
• Keith Andrew Beckett CBEAppointed 8 May 2022
• Mark George CarwardineAppointed 1 January 2022
• Shaun Robinson EganAppointed 8 May 2022

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, 4 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

1193634

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 February 2021

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED 23 FEB 2021AMENDED ON 27 JAN 2022 as amended on 30 Mar 2025

Website

www.sara-rescue.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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