OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 291693 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide Scouting for young people, boys and girls, in Oxfordshire.

Objects

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £49,953 for the year ended 31st March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £401,221. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold at least nine months of expenditure, with free reserves standing at £129,541, which is below the implied target of approximately £270,560 (nine months of the £360,747 expenditure).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Hindlechair
• Alexander James Warren Wynne · trustee of 2 other charities
• George Ryall
• JOHN CLIVE CECIL MAY OBE DL
• James Pepperell-Jackson
• Joanna Lorraine Durber
• Joshua Preece
• Kathleen Margaret Pengelly
• Kimberly Anne Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsten Michaela Phipps Get
• Philip James Earl
• Wendy Louise Tatham

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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