Severn Area Rescue Association

Provides inshore lifeboats and inland search and rescue, on the tidal Severn, Wye, and Usk and across the wider area of the River Severn including all of Gloucestershire.On 1 Jan 22 SARA become a Charity CIO. All assets and operations of the Charity were moved into Charity CIO 1193634, and this Charity (505504) is now dormant pending formal closure.

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

Elsewhere

• Gloucestershire
• Shropshire
• South Gloucestershire
• Telford & Wrekin
• Worcestershire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Marine Operations - Principal Area - Bristol Channel and the Severn, Wye, Avon and Usk Rivers. Land Operations - South East Wales, the West of England and the Midlands.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £0.

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.

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Spending against income

It spent 106% of its income in the year to 31 December 2021.

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 2021: £64,934 from 15 grants. 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 3 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £155,771.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Alan PalmerAppointed 18 May 2017
• Alan StanleyAppointed 22 July 2016
• Jim HewittAppointed 10 March 2003
• John Earnest William CairnsAppointed 22 May 2016
• Mervyn FlemingAppointed 8 March 2018

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

505504

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 September 1976

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 28 JUNE 1976 AS AMENDED 22 FEBRUARY 1977, 28 FEBRUARY 1979, 29 SEPTEMBER 1993, APRIL 2000, AND 16 MARCH 2006.AS AMENDED ON 25 MAY 2017

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.
• 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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