GSE U.K.

Registered charity 1198968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GUIDES AND SCOUTS OF EUROPE - UNITED KINGDOM

To develop good citizenship, character and Christian beliefs among young people who are both self-reliant and useful to others by embodying the practice of scouting, as inherited from Robert Baden-Powell and enriched by Fr Jacques Sevin.

Objects

TO DEVELOP GOOD CITIZENSHIP, CHARACTER AND CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH SELF-RELIANT AND USEFUL TO OTHERS BY EMBODYING THE PRACTICE OF SCOUTING, AS INHERITED FROM ROBERT BADEN-POWELL AND ENRICHED BY FR JACQUES SEVIN AND AS ESTABLISHED INTERNATIONALLY BY ORGANISATIONS AFFILIATED TO THE UNION INTERNATIONALE DES GUIDES ET SCOUTS D’EUROPE – FÉDÉRATION DU SCOUTISME EUROPÉEN.

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: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £5,560 for the year ended 31 January 2025, resulting in total net assets of £4,173. The charity's unrestricted funds are negative at £(1,387), while restricted funds stand at £4,173. The trustees aim to maintain reserves sufficient to ensure programme continuity and compliance with safeguarding obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Colquhounchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Anthony Hallam
• Paul Hammond

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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