Wantage Scout Group

Registered charity 300516 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST KING ALFRED SCOUT GROUP, 1ST KING ALFRED'S BOY SCOUT GROUP

Providing Scouting activities for children aged 6-8 - Beavers; for children 8-11 - Cubs; for children ages 11 -14 - Scouts; and older children 14-18 Explorer Scouts. These activities can be water based - e.g swimming and canoeing: camping - a number of times during the year for most age groups. There are also the weekly meetings where the leaders organise indoor and outdoor activities.

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: 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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's finances are in good health with no major issues, closing the year with unrestricted reserves of £30,098.44, an increase from the previous year's £28,849.86. Total income of £58,826.29 exceeded total payments of £57,577.71, resulting in a surplus for the period.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wantage Scout Group (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashley Charles Cooper
• Dr John Roger Bales · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Edmee Marguerite Jaeger
• Jacqueline Louise Smith
• Janet Ann Green
• Laura Marie Legate
• Stephen Mark Houseman
• Steve Legate
• Wendy Dobbenie

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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