Charity Details

Galloway Mountain Rescue Team

SC020065Registered charity from 10 April 1992

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Notes:

This SCIO was incorporated on the 16 October 2014 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Galloway Mountain Rescue SC020065, which was an Unincorporated Association registered as a charity since 10 April 1992.

Charity Information:

Address 36 Queen Elizabeth Drive
Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas

Postcode DG7 1HH

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Website https://gallowaymrt.org.uk/

Parent Charity Name Scottish Mountain Rescue

Parent Charity Registration Number SC015257

Parent Charity Country of Registration Scotland

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

The organisation's purpose is to save lives by maintaining an operational team to train for and carry out search and rescue requirements in the area.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

Galloway Mountain Rescue Team was formed in 1975 in response to a request from both the community and Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary for a trained, voluntary search and rescue team to assist the Police in times of need. The Team provides search and rescue assistance to the public in an area covering over 130 km (80 miles) from Stranraer in the west to near Dumfries in the east, and 70 kms (40 miles) from the Solway Coast to the South Ayrshire Hills. Galloway MRT is on call 24/7 throughout the year responding to between 10-20 Callouts in a year. Members are all volunteers and there is no renumeration for membership or management of the Team. Team members train throughout the year with two training sessions each month. Training covers many aspects including Search Management, Communications, Rescue Strategies, First Aid, Navigation and Winter Skills. The Team also has Drone, Medical (RRMT), Water Rescue and Technical Rescue sub-groups who attend additional training

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 16 Oct 2014

Previous Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 10 Apr 1992

Main Operating Location: Dumfries And Galloway

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the saving of lives", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
30 Sept 2021	£29,922	£42,908	23 Dec 2021	Yes
30 Sept 2022	£71,757	£70,962	27 Nov 2022	Yes
30 Sept 2023	£62,531	£55,020	19 Dec 2023	Yes
30 Sept 2024	£81,379	£70,059	20 Nov 2024	Yes
30 Sept 2025	£68,071	£94,298	01 Dec 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Stewart	Gibson
David	Tyson
Antony	Meadows
Kenneth	McCubbin
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