WEST LEEDS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 1085449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our purpose is to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £10,983 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £58,399 against expenditure of £47,416. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £257,504 at year-end, which the Trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for three to six months in the event of a significant drop in funding. The charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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 expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathleen Burrellchair
• Ashley Charles Hepworth
• GRAHAM BURRELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Elaine Taylor
• Jon Lander · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith George Padbury
• MICHAEL TIFFANY
• Marian Padbury
• Matthew Giles
• Phillip Whitehead
• Rebecca Whitehead
• STUART MCGOWAN

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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