Southport Offshore Rescue Trust

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.

The register data used for this profile lists Southport Offshore Rescue Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1146805). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1146805&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.

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Southport Offshore Rescue Trust scores 84 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Southport Offshore Rescue Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of Southport Offshore Rescue Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (2-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 16% of expenditure (2024–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Southport Offshore Rescue Trust. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust reported £714k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust's registered contact address is in Preston (PR4 6SN). It tells the regulator it operates in Sefton, Lancashire, with a focus on environment.

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust reported £714k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £355k (50%), donations and legacies £321k (45%), investments £25k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £190k.

The register records Southport Offshore Rescue Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Southport Offshore Rescue Trust was entered on the register on 5 April 2012. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08011925).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Southport Offshore Rescue Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Southport Offshore Rescue Trust's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.