8TH WORTHING SEA SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 279339 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As Scouts, we believe in preparing young people with skills for life. We encourage our young people to do more, learn more and be more. Each week, the 8th Worthing Sea Scout Group give young people of Worthing the opportunity to enjoy fun and adventure while developing the skills they need to succeed.

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: WORTHING

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: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group remained in good financial shape with a year-end bank balance of £61,385, despite recording a small deficit of £910 for the period. The Trustees have agreed an operational budget for the next financial year that includes further special projects partly funded by reserves, with monthly budget vs. actual spend management to ensure financial stability.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 30/01/2026, 364 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 31/05/2024, 121 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Kennedychair
• Alec Irving
• Harry Rippon
• Hugh Robert Shaw Tennent
• Nigel Rippon
• Rachel Corcoran

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE 1ST / 14TH WARRINGTON SCOUT GROUP income £13k

Side by side with its peers

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