WELLINGBOROUGH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 1024361 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE SCOUT GROUPS IN THE Town OF WELLINGBOROUGH & surrounding villages in the area previously designated The Borough of Wellingbough

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 total net assets increased from £68,759.38 to £98,879.77 during the year, driven by a surplus of £16,041.99. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £35,496.04 and restricted funds of £69,164.51, with no disclosed liabilities other than accounts payable and unpaid subscriptions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Denton Tavara. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geoffrey Bardenchair
• Archie McDermott Paintin
• Barry Keith Potter
• Caroline Joy Jewell
• David Peter Jones
• MICHAEL DAVID JENNINGS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Derek Palmer
• Samuel David Jennings
• Scott Anthony Freeman

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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