Our guiding principles
We have a small number of guiding principles for our work as a charity.
In 2006, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carried out a review of gas safety, finding that while the situation was improving, there was no room for complacency.
People still had low awareness of the risks caused by gas and carbon monoxide.
April 2009 saw the launch of Gas Safe Register, the official gas registration body for the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Guernsey. It replaced CORGI. By law, all gas engineers in these geographies must be on the Gas Safe Register.
The HSE review also prompted the formation of Gas Safe Charity in October 2009, established by HSE and Capita plc, the new scheme operator of Gas Safe Register. Capita made an initial donation of £1.7m to establish Gas Safe Charity, which has a Board of Trustees, with a Chair and a Company Secretary & Administrator. Gas Safe Charity operates independently of Gas Safe Register.
We are supported financially by an annual donation from Gas Safe Register, representing 1% of its turnover, which comes mainly from the registration fees paid by over 70,000 businesses.
Our promise is to help people help themselves to be gas safe. This means informing, educating and supporting the people who need it most. This can take many forms; from running a campaign to increase awareness of CO poisoning among those who care for and support people in their own homes, to providing resources for primary schools to tell children and parents of the dangers.
We have a small number of guiding principles for our work as a charity.
Gas Safe Charity develops long-term working relationships with other organisations to reduce the causes of gas poisoning, fires and explosions, and to identify problems where...
Download our first progress report up to March 2016.
Gas Safe Charity brings together a team of trustees with backgrounds in gas transportation, supply and safety, electrical safety, charity work and management.
Download the Trustee’s report and unaudited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2015.
