BIGGLESWADE SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 300444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 9TH BEDS (BIGGLESWADE) BOY SCOUTS GROUP

Full Scouting activities in line with Scout Association guidelines

Objects

PURPOSES OF THE BIGGLESWADE SCOUT GROUP.

Area of benefit: BIGGLESWADE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group incurred a small deficit of £3,467 for the year, primarily due to late insurance payments and headquarters improvements. However, the trustees report a very healthy cash balance of £74,903 at year-end, with no liabilities recorded. The Group owns its headquarters building and land, though these assets are not formally valued in the accounts.

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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Biggleswade Scout Group (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Susan Lawsonchair
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN WELLS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Gordon Flood
• Claire Louise Peacock
• Helen Marie Kingerley
• Jasper Spencer Hare
• Jerome Thomas Doyle

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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