1ST COPTHORNE SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 291680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides the organisation and financial support to Scouters, in order that they may provide Scouting activities for the youth of Copthorne Village and surrounding area.

Objects

THE INSTRUCTIONS OF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

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.

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Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total gross income increased to £94,327 from £60,239 in the prior year, with total payments rising to £86,517. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £116,045, which the document notes are not restricted, aside from a small restricted portion for camp attendance. The trustees have approved the accounts, indicating adequate resources to continue operations.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK HAMMONDchair
• Anne Hammond
• GWYN RONALD CHEESMUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN DAWSON
• Mario Paolino Monella
• Miles Price
• Owen Cheesmur

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• 1ST COMPTON SCOUT GROUP income £33k
• 1ST COPMANTHORPE SCOUT GROUP income £39k
• 1ST CROWTHORNE SCOUT GROUP income £40k
• 1st Shottery Scout Group income £49k
• 1ST SAWLEY (ALL SAINTS) SCOUT GROUP income £28k
• 1ST PLYMPTON SCOUT GROUP income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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