1ST BIRDHAM AND WITTERINGS SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 1182919 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Scout Group in local area

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.

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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Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased from £448,687.41 to £478,808.31 during the year, driven by a net movement in funds of £19,087.04. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £461,355.55 and restricted funds of £17,452.76, with significant cash reserves held across current and deposit accounts. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the provided text to assess whether these levels are adequate relative to expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 1st Birdham and Wittering Scout Group (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Anderson
• Joshua Luke Hammett
• Ray Nye
• Ross Codrai · trustee of 1 other charity
• Scott Collier

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 1ST WINCHESTER SCOUT GROUP.

• 1ST WINCHESTER SCOUT GROUP income £49k
• 1ST LAWFORD SCOUT GROUP income £29k
• 1ST/3RD BOOKHAM SCOUT GROUP income £90k
• 1ST ALBRIGHTON SCOUT GROUP income £126k
• 1ST SAFFRON WALDEN SCOUT GROUP income £27k
• 1ST WORCESTER SCOUT GROUP (FORMERLY WORCESTER 'B' GROUP) income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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