NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 269735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Scouting for young people. support and training for adults to carry out relevant duties.

Objects

PROMOTING 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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by £55,950 to a total of £320,507 in free/unrestricted reserves, with an additional £213,455 designated for specific purposes. The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £55,950 for the year, driven by a significant recovery in the Sir John Lowther Activity Centre's finances, which achieved a surplus of £2,666 after previous deficits.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Marie Swannchair
• Alison Janette Andrews
• Caleb Newman
• Dominic Lewis Winfield
• Gillian Frances Dowling
• Glyn Timmins
• Henny Cameron
• Lucy Olivia Jewell
• Samantha Jane Longhurst
• Steven Paul Rolt

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k
• CENTRAL YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £431k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £916k
• GREATER MANCHESTER WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £133k
• NUNEATON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £162k
• CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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