MAIDSTONE WEST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 1022011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maidstone West Scout District seeks to promote the aims of Scouting within the West Maidstone and surrounding area. Scout Groups and Units within the District provide a balanced programme of activities to young people from 6 to 25 years of age. Activities are delivered by adult volunteers and are centred on promoting challenge, adventure and leadership to young people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a small surplus for the year ended 31 March 2025, following deficits in the two previous years. The trustees report that the district remains in a sound financial position, with total net assets increasing to £1,450,340. The district maintains a formal reserves policy and holds unrestricted monetary assets of £36,718.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER BURY
• DANIEL JAMES EVEREST
• Daniel Cawse
• JOSH REYNOLDS
• Jonathan David Atkins
• NICHOLAS CHARLES KEATES
• Patricia Annette Hadley
• Perry Charles O'Callaghan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sophie Hodges
• Thomas David Scott Hood

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kent

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