Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service (Saves)

Analysis

Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service (Saves) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Somerset. It was registered in August 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service (Saves) reported income of £40k and spending of £34k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £27k to £40k (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 159%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service (Saves) sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salisbury Community Choir (£40k), National Tremor Foundation Charitable Trust (£40k) and Devizes and District Link (£40k).