DARTFORD CAMBRIA SEA SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 1023312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of the Scout Association is to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local national and international communities.

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: IN PRACTICE DARTFORD

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£83k
Latest spending
£96k
Registered
1993
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £217,562 at the year end, which exceeds the stated policy target of approximately £4,000. The trustees report that sufficient funds are held to cover future commitments, and the group operated on a going concern basis with adequate cash resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: four months running costs, circa £4,000 (held: £218k)
“The Group Trustee Board considered that the Group should hold a sum equivalent to four months running costs, circa £4,000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£83k£96k
31/03/2024£353k£97k
31/03/2023£94k£94k
31/03/2022£76k£80k
31/03/2021£78k£69k

Common questions

Is DARTFORD CAMBRIA SEA SCOUT GROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £217,562 at the year end, which exceeds the stated policy target of approximately £4,000. The trustees report that sufficient funds are held to cover future commitments, and the group operated on a going concern basis with adequate cash resources.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England10/04/2017£10kExtension of Sailing Provision
Sport England11/08/2015£10kUpgrading of equipment and training to RYA Standard