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Registered charity · Salisbury

React Disaster Response Ltd

React Disaster Response Ltd is a registered charity (number 1163214) based in Salisbury, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Lieutenant General Sir Charles Richard Stickland since 2025. Latest income £1.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as RE:ACT (Charity Commission)

3.1.1 the relief and assistance for the affected population of natural hazards and disasters, conflict, catastrophe or other crises anywhere in the world get the humanitarian assistance they require. To deliver this by the rapid deployment of...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria and more
Website
www.re-act.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
React Disaster Response LTD
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.9m
  • 2024£992k£2.5m
  • 2023£2.3m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£10m
  • 2021£8.1m£6.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1.1 the relief and assistance for the affected population of natural hazards and disasters, conflict, catastrophe or other crises anywhere in the world get the humanitarian assistance they require. To deliver this by the rapid deployment of vetted, skilled, experienced and well-equipped emergency response teams, composed of humanitarian volunteers, many of whom are armed forces veterans, and together provide humanitarian aid from the moment a disaster or catastrophe occurs to the point at which conventional disaster relief organisations are able to respond, and on an on-going basis.3.1.2 the relief and assistance for communities in the United Kingdom who are affected by natural hazards and disasters or critical incident, by providing volunteers as referred to in article 3.1.1 to support and complement where needed the responses of emergency services and other national and regional organisations to such occurrences; 3.1.3 to develop the capacity and skills of communities in the United Kingdom and around the world to reduce the risks associated with natural hazards, humanitarian crises, or the impacts of climate change through the deployment of volunteers referred to in article 3.1.1 as part of resilience, mitigation, and capacity strengthening programmes; and 3.1.4 the training and mentoring of armed services veterans by using their skills and experience to deliver humanitarian operations and programmes referred to in articles 3.1.1, 3.1.2, & 3.1.3 to support their transition, skills development, employment prospects and wellbeing.

Grants received

8 grants · £204,412 total

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 8Overseas Aid/famine Relief 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 9Finance 2Professional services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.6 in 2021

22 from 23 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1163214
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17 JUN 2015 as amended on 19 May 2020 as amended on 02 Jul 2020 as amended on 14 Apr 2023 as amended on 05 Jul 2023 as amended on 22 Sep 2023
Companies House
Company number 09644561 · Active
Contact on the register
03003309488 · info@re-act.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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