ERT SEARCH AND RESCUE
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
ERT SAR is an international NGO established to relieve suffering & distress among persons affected by hazards, risks, emergencies & disasters in the UK & Internationally. ERT SAR provides emergency & disaster response, search & rescue & medical teams to deploy to areas affected by disasters and also works in the other areas of capacity building, resiliance and disaster risk reduction strategies.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 28 February 2025
People
6 Trustee(s)
15 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Accommodation/housing
- Amateur Sport
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
- 18 March 2004: Standard registration
- 09 December 2008: Removed (Does not operate)
- 13 May 2009: Standard registration
- ERT SAR (Working name)
- OSAR (Working name)
- Oxfordshire Search and Rescue (OSAR) (Working name)
- UNITED KINGDOM SEARCH AND RESCUE (Working name)
- OXFORDSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE (Previous name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
6 Trustee(s)
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| Gary Foo MCPara FCT | Chair | 01 December 2002 |
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| Luke Barton | Trustee | 28 June 2025 |
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| Patrick Robinson | Trustee | 17 February 2022 |
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| James Luke Frost | Trustee | 17 February 2022 |
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| Virginia Foo BA Hon RPN | Trustee | 01 December 2002 |
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| Paul Giles MCPara | Trustee | 01 December 2002 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 28/02/2021 | 28/02/2022 | 28/02/2023 | 29/02/2024 | 28/02/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £448 | £12.55k | £618 | £608 | £51.09k | |
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Total expenditure | £3.66k | £6.94k | £7.05k | £3.81k | £4.00k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 28 February 2025 | 27 December 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 February 2025 | 27 December 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 29 February 2024 | 29 July 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 29 February 2024 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 28 February 2023 | 23 December 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 February 2023 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 28 February 2022 | 18 December 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 February 2022 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 28 February 2021 | 27 December 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 February 2021 | Not required |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 10 JANUARY 2003 AS AMENDED 9 JANUARY 2004.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS ENDANGERED BY ACCIDENT OR NATURAL HAZARD BY THE PROVISION OF A TRAINED SEARCH AND RESCUE UNIT TO ASSIST THAMES VALLEY (OXFORDSHIRE) POLICE OR OTHER AGENCIES.
Area of benefit
IN THE THAMES VALLEY (OXFORDSHRE) AREA.
Contact information
- Address:
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1 OLIVER'S YARD
4th Floor
55-71 City Road
London
EC1Y 1HQ
- Phone:
- 0203 608 5238
- Email:
- hq@ert-sar.com
- Website:
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