Saving of lives Charities That specialise in Search and rescue

Brighton Surf Life Saving Club is a charity of over 100 volunteers helping to make our beaches a safer and more enjoyable place for everyone. BSLSC volunteers have been providing beach lifeguard training and patrolling in the local community for more than 60 years..

MISSEDABEAT supports communities across the UK by raising funds to provide life-saving defibrillators and Bleed Control Kits, all of which are registered on the national circuit to ensure accessibility during emergencies. Bleed Control Kits provide essential tools to manage severe bleeding before professional help arrives. Both significantly improving the chances of survival in critical situation

The relief of suffering and distress amongst persons and animals endangered by accidents or natural hazards by providing arrangements for secure and efficient search and rescue of such persons and animals.This done through the maintenance of volunteer underground and surface rescue teams, based in Grassington, North Yorkshire and covering Wharfedale, Nidderdale, Littondale and mid-Airedale.

To preserve and save life by the provision and maintenance of an in-shore rescue service along and off the coast of East Yorkshire of Yorkshire and by the promotion of all aspects of water safety.

Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team (Tavistock) provide search & rescue services for the Police and Ambulance services for Dartmoor and the surrounding rural area. The team searches for and recovers missing persons of all ages and circumstances, such as youth groups, the elderly, despondents and those with dementia, and provides first aid and rescue cover for Ten Tors and similar events.

The team provides personnel to support the Police as required to search for and rescue members of the public who are missing and/or injured in rural and semi-rural areas in the South West of England. The team can mount an immediate and totally self-sufficient search & rescue operation at any time of day or night with trained search managers, medics and search & rescue personnel and equipment.

The charity relies on donations in order to carry out its main objective, which is to provide a lifeboat for the protection of the general public. The charity also carries out fundraising events and sells clothing in order to raise additional funds.

We provide Search and Rescue of the vulnerable and missing, we rescue the injured from hazardous locations including mountains, quarries, urban areas, rivers, lakes and floodwater. We also recover the deceased from isolated or hazardous locations. The medical treatments are provided by trained members of the team. We operate in Conway, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys and Wrexham.

We are a specialist disaster response and humanitarian assistance charity that supports both domestic and international communities in times of need affected by disasters natural and man-made. We train and equip dedicated volunteers and members of the public to provide assistance and support to the emergency services

Wave Wrangler looks to build awareness of living with arryhthmia through ocean based expeditions.Through hosting events, expeditions and challenges, the charity will raise funds to help people of all ages deal with the complications of arrhythmia including the donation of life saving devices. In 2023, founder Elliot Awin will be the first person to row an ocean with a cardiac pacing device.

The Trust maintains a museum of firefighting in the Greater Manchester region. It manages a collection of fire engines, equipment, uniforms, medals etc, which is open to the public. The operation is run entirely by volunteers. Working in partnership with the Fire and Rescue Service, it also operates a dedicated education programme for schools.

Coaching in Surf Lifesaving skills to gain qualifications for Surf Lifesaving Sport and lifeguarding to aid prevention of loss of life on Portreath Beach.

To protect against loss of life at sea through education, training and action.To represent and promote the sports of surf lifesaving and surfing in St Agnes.To encourage the safe enjoyment of the coastal enviroment.

The team provides search & rescue facilities for use by police/ambulance services, mainly in West Yorkshire, but throughout England/Wales. The team also provides training and gives talks/visits to various interested groups, about mountain rescue.

To provide efficient search and rescue services, primarily but not exclusively on mountains and fells, for the benefit of any person or persons in need of such services and also promote public safety in this subject by whatever charitable means the Executive Committee think fit.

TO TEACH AND DEVELOP SURF LIFE SAVING SKILLS

To relieve suffering by providing volunteers trained to search and recover missing vulnerable people, working at the request of Thames Valley Police and assisting other Rescue organisations. Providing First Aid and Search and Rescue volunteers to the County Emergency Resilience department during times of flood or other disasters. Providing First Aid and marshaling personnel to local organisations.

Provision of search & rescue services to Avon & Somerset Police in Somerset and elsewhere

Searching for and rescuing missing and vunerable persons in Devon and Somerset.

Swimming lessons which follow the national plan through stages 4-7Competitive swimming from development to performance.The club provides a safe environment from which children from 5-18 can swim.

To assist in the relief of suffering and distress among persons endangered by accidents or natural hazards in the lowland areas of Kent, particularly by providing adequate arrangements for the secure and efficient search and rescue of any person or persons so endangered.

Mountain Rescue Team

Search and rescue teams exist to search for missing persons or the vulnerable, and items such as evidence in a criminal case. WILSAR primarily cover the county of Wiltshire but we also regularly assist neighbouring teams in Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Berkshire and will assist any search organisation requesting help, if at all possible.

To teach life saving techniques by prevention and/or rescue in a beach environment. Train adults and children in life saving skills / swimming/ rescue/resuscitation and train to a nationally recognised certificated level - often feeding into RNLI roles.

The conditions in the Bristol Channel can be treacherous, LMSLSC provides continuous voluntary service on the beach.The club is located at the beach in Llantwit Major and we provide a voluntary lifeguard service and first aid point.LMSLSC has a high standing in the local community providing sport and education from nippers to masters.