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Saving of lives Charities That specialise in Search and rescue

Discover 338 Saving of lives charities that specialise in search and rescue. Use the search below to filter within these results.

338
Charities
£4,239,256,784
Total Income
£1,701,146
Avg Income
78.9%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team

Saving of lives

To relieve suffering and distress amongst persons endangered by accidents or natural hazards.

Latest Income: £29,874
Areas of Operation: Gwynedd
Status: Registered
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Whitmore Bay Surf Life Saving Club

Leisure, Saving of lives

Whitmore Bay Surf Life Saving Club was established in 2003 and is based at the main beach on Barry Island,Barry,Vale of Glamorgan,Wales.Whitmore Bay SLSC is a voluntary,not-for-profit organisation,committed to providing a safe beach and aquatic environment to the community of Barry Island,whilst developing life saving skills and fitness of its members.

Latest Income: £29,303
Areas of Operation: Vale Of Glamorgan
Status: Registered
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Bournemouth Lifeguard Corps

Leisure, Saving of lives

To further the saving of lives, whether by prevention or rescue, for the public benefit by promoting water safety in all aspects of water activities. To assist members by offering support in undertaking operational patrol, rescue and competitive lifesaving activities, providing opportunities to acquire, maintain and improve lifeguarding and lifesaving skills, qualifications and physical fitness.

Latest Income: £28,844
Areas of Operation: Bournemouth
Status: Registered
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Lusty Surf Life Saving Club

Saving of lives

Surf life saving club providing surf lifesaving training for members of the local community.

Latest Income: £28,658
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Lincolnshire Lowland Search And Rescue

Saving of lives

Primarily help find and rescue to a place of safety members of the public that go missing and are considered life in danger. Provide a specialist team for the local community by responding to requests from the Police, the Local Authority and other emergency services; Ensure that all that engage with us, receive courteous, friendly and a high-quality professional service.

Latest Income: £28,595
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Loughor Inshore Rescue

Education, Saving of lives

Loughor Inshore Rescue is a declared asset with the Maritime & Coastguard agency and primarily provides an Inshore Lifeboat. The Lifeboat provides the community with sea and coastal Rescue Services in and around the Loughor Estuary. The Crew also provide Flood Search & Rescue capability to the surrounding communities & Safety talks to schools.

Latest Income: £27,941
Areas of Operation: Carmarthenshire
Status: Registered
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Airfield Volunteer Fire Service

Charity and VCS support, Saving of lives

provide a service that is able to respond when requested, to an emergency, through the provision of appropriate fire appliances, equipment and personnel properly qualified in their use.promote fire, personal and airfield safety.encourage knowledge and expertise within the field of airfield safety.provide and maintain an emergency fire and rescue service for the benefit of the public.

Latest Income: £27,917
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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The Charlie Froud Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Health, Saving of lives

The Charlie Froud Foundation has been set up in memory of Charlie, a 14 year old boy who died in October 2008 when the light aircraft he was traveling in, crashed in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. The Foundation has been set up to financially benefit The Volunteer Irish Rescue Services, Marlwood School and Children?s Hospice South West.

Latest Income: £27,187
Areas of Operation: Ireland
Status: Registered
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Porthmawr Surf Life Saving Club

Leisure, Saving of lives

To save lives and prevent drowning, primarily through:a) providing education and training in all areas relating to lifesaving, rescue and resuscitation for thebenefit of the public b) Providing facilities to take part in organised lifesaving as a voluntary public service and to take part inbeach and water sports, so as to develop their capabilities as lifeguards.

Latest Income: £26,446
Areas of Operation: Pembrokeshire
Status: Registered
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Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team

Saving of lives

To assist in the relieving of suffering and distress amongst persons endangered by accidents or natural hazards in South and Mid Wales geographical area, but also without geographical limitation, and to provide adequate arrangements for the secure and efficient search and rescue of any persons so endangered. We are now equipped and trained to offer search and rescue in natural disaster's.

Latest Income: £26,231
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation P D M R O

Economic and community development, Saving of lives

Provides a service, mainly in upland or mountain areas, to save life and alleviate distress. Additionally undertakes searches of lowland and rural areas for missing persons when requested by the Police.

Latest Income: £25,511
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Weymouth Surf Life Saving Club

Saving of lives

Beach Lifeguard skillsWater SafetyBeach EnvironmentSearch and RescueCoachingResuscitation, and First Aid.

Latest Income: £25,511
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Mon Search And Rescue (m-Sar)

Saving of lives

Undertaking the search for and rescue of persons in need as requested by the Police or other search organization.

Latest Income: £25,460
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The South Wales Search And Rescue Association

Saving of lives

Relief of suffering and distress amongst persons endangered by accidents or natural hazards in South and Mid-Wales, but without geographical limitations. To provide adequate arrangements for the secure and efficient search and rescue of any person or persons so endangered. To act as an intermediary between local Mountain Rescue Teams and the national body the Mountain Rescue Council

Latest Income: £24,542
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Tenby Surf Life Saving Club

Saving of lives

To save life, whether by prevention or by rescue, from the beaches at Tenby

Latest Income: £24,122
Areas of Operation: Pembrokeshire
Status: Registered
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Hartlepool Sea Cadets

Associations, Leisure, Saving of lives

Cadets can gain skills that assist employers, for example self-confidence, leadership and good communication skills. Further skills learnt by the youngsters include life saving, Seamanship, Canoeing, Navigation, Communications, Sailing, Cookery, Rowing, Swimming, Wind Surfing. The unit also has a very successful band which performs at many local events throughout the year

Latest Income: £23,558
Areas of Operation: Hartlepool
Status: Registered
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Exmouth Beach Rescue Club

Leisure, Saving of lives

Exmouth Beach Rescue provides voluntary lifeguard cover to Exmouth beach at weekends and bank holidays throughout the summer season (May bank holiday to end of September). Members are provided with training in rescue & first aid techniques as well as use & maintanence of rescue equipment (including IRB rescue craft). Safety cover also provided for water events (i.e. swimming events & triathlon).

Latest Income: £22,511
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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South And Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team/tim Achub Ogofau De A Chanolbarth Cymru

Saving of lives

The object of the Team shall be to relieve suffering and distress amongst persons or animals endangered by accident or natural hazards underground by the provision, at the request of the police, of search and rescue for any persons or animals endangered.

Latest Income: £21,852
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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West Cornwall Search & Rescue Team

Saving of lives

Voluntary inland search and rescue across West Cornwall and support to other teams and emergency services across the wider UK

Latest Income: £21,851
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Merseyside Lowland Search And Rescue

Saving of lives

We search for high risk vulnerable missing people

Latest Income: £21,770
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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United Kingdom Association For Medical Aid To Sri Lanka

Beneficiary group, Health, Saving of lives

This year we donated life saving equipment to Castle Street maternity Hospital Colombo. Mainly a premature baby ventilator, Incubator and ten pulse oximeters. In addition we have been supplying dialising catheters and solutions to needy patients with Chronic Kidney disease.

Latest Income: £21,547
Areas of Operation: Sri Lanka
Status: Registered
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Sywell Open Water Swimming

Charity and VCS support, Leisure, Saving of lives

We provide open water swimming sessions at the retired reservoir within Sywell Country Park. A small fee is charge but all of our income is used to improve the facilities and provide training to all of our volunteers including lifeguard training and acreditation

Latest Income: £20,691
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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Harlyn Surf Life Saving Club

Charity and VCS support, Saving of lives

Provision of clubhouse facilities and training in sea-safety etc. for club members from the age of 8, through to qualification status as RNLI lifeguards for our regions beaches.

Latest Income: £20,675
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Appleby & District Community First Responder Group

Charitable activities, Health, Saving of lives

1,The relief of sickness and preservation and protection of good health in the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) area, trained by NWAS to respond locally in advance of a ambulance operating in our local area and with our trackiing system anywhere in the NWAS area.2,To advance the education of the public with training of first aid with basic life saving skills working with BHF Heartstart .

Latest Income: £20,471
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Search And Rescue Relief Limited

Saving of lives

Providing search and rescue equipment, training and grants for NGO's throughout the world.

Latest Income: £20,267
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many search-and-rescue saving of lives charities are there in the UK?

There are 338 registered search-and-rescue saving of lives charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the search-and-rescue saving of lives charities by income?

British Heart Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£410.6m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of search-and-rescue saving of lives charities?

Search-and-rescue saving of lives charities reported a combined annual income of £4.2bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for search-and-rescue saving of lives charities?

Across all search-and-rescue saving of lives charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 78.9%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of search-and-rescue saving of lives charities?

Search-and-rescue saving of lives charities have an average annual income of £1.7m. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.