LEWES DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 288521 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Oversees Scout Groups in the Lewes District

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS, 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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds substantial funds resulting from the sale of a property, with most held in cash for instant access. The trustees monitor bank balances regularly to ensure maximum value and maintain protection under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. The charity's reserves policy is to hold sufficient funds to cover running costs and continue charitable activities in the short and medium term.

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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Fines · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID RICH
• Derek Cleaver
• RODNEY HILLS

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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