SELBY DISTRICT SCOUTS

Registered charity 1204695 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Scouting exists to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empoweringthem to make a positive contribution to society. Selby District Scouts provides activities directly to young people aged 14-25, and supports Scout Groups and volunteers across the wider Selby area who work directly with young people aged between 4 and 14 years old.

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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Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total gross income was £64,442.88 against total gross expenditure of £60,266.07, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves (cash funds) of £67,850.95 at year-end, which the trustees note is held to ensure continuity of activities should income reduce.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Cook
• Daniel Shipstone
• Geoffrey Martin Stockill
• Julie Farley
• Linda Cartwright
• Lucy Mann
• Paula Hyland
• Sean Hick
• Stephen Sedman

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sale & District Scouts.

• Sale & District Scouts income £84k
• LEWISHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £470k
• BASINGSTOKE EAST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £269k
• 1ST CHOLSEY SCOUT GROUP income £40k
• TEIGNBRIDGE DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £132k
• BROMLEY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £188k

Side by side with its peers

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