1ST TURNFORD SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 267342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST TURNFORD SCOUT GROUP (TL/2370)

Provision of wide range of educational & developmental activities for young people so as to equip them to become responsible and well-rounded citizens

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£26k
Latest spending
£18k
Registered
1974
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £65,123.26, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining at least one year's running expenses. Operational costs are fully covered by general funds, and the group has generated a net surplus for the year. The trustees maintain that resources are adequate to continue activities and mitigate identified risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Membership Subscriptions (35% of income)
“MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS 9,356.00”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: at least one year’s expenses for the running of the Group (held: £65k)
“It is the intention of the Trustee Board to keep a general fund and its reserve for the upkeep and repair of the current Scout Hut, and at least one year’s expenses for the running of the Group.” — page 3
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£26k£18k
31/12/2024£14k£17k
31/12/2023£16k£18k
31/12/2022£16k£15k
31/12/2021£24k£10k

Common questions

Is 1ST TURNFORD SCOUT GROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reports a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £65,123.26, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining at least one year's running expenses. Operational costs are fully covered by general funds, and the group has generated a net surplus for the year. The trustees maintain that resources are adequate to continue activities and mitigate identified risks. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund24/08/2006£5kCamping Equipment

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
SKELTON BOUNTY1£2k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
1ST TURNFORD SCOUT GROUP£26k—0above—no doubt
1ST THORNTON-CLEVELEYS SCOUT GROUP FY2025£22k—0above—no doubt
1ST BOWDENS SCOUT GROUP FY2025£107k—0above—no doubt
1ST METHERINGHAM SCOUT GROUP FY2025£27k—0above—no doubt
1ST BRAMFORD SCOUT GROUP FY2025£31k—0unclear—no doubt
1ST GRUNDISBURGH SCOUT GROUP FY2025£61k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.