RSCDS BRISTOL

Registered charity 1059608 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R S C D S - BRISTOL, THE ROYAL SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE SOCIETY - BRISTOL

To promote scottish country dancing

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING, IN PARTICULAR BY: A. PRESERVING AND FURTHERING THE PRACTICE OF TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES. B. PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING INSTRUCTION IN THE DANCING OF SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES C. PROMOTING THE ENJOYMENT AND APPRECIATION OF SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING AND ITS MUSIC BY ANY SUITABLE MEANS D. GENERALLY DOING SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE OR MAY BE CONSIDERED BY THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION TO FURTHER THE FOREGOING OBJECTS AND THOSE OF THE SOCIETY IN THE DISTRICT OR AREA TO WHICH THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION RELATES ETC

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 ended the year with a net surplus of £3,077, increasing unrestricted funds to £15,952. The independent examiner reported no material matters of concern regarding the accounting records or compliance with the Charities Act 2011.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive William Robinsonchair
• ABIGAIL MCINALLY
• ALAN COTTLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Leslie Pinder
• Heather Acornley
• Josephine Tarnowski · trustee of 1 other charity
• LESLEY COTTLE
• MICHAEL JACKSON

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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