1ST SANDWELL SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 1179166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The 1st Sandwell Scout Group provides facilities and a group structure to provide adult leadership to enable local young people to become Scouts and allows Scouting to take place. They hold weekly meeting for different age groups where both fun and training activities take place and provide off site activities at other times.

Objects

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.

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 returned a slight operating surplus of £39.00 and held total reserves of approximately £33,000 (£8,000 for running costs and £25,000 in additional reserves). The trustees confirm the group is financially sound and can withstand the recent 18% fall in membership numbers.

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
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• VANESSA MICHELLE HITCHONchair
• ALAN JAMES DEAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIGITTE ANNE HATFIELD
• Benjamin James Hatfield
• CHRISTINE ANN JONES
• Graham Jones
• Lewis Tucker
• Lynne Mary Barlow

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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