DORSET COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 301214 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DORSET COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION, DORSET SCOUT COUNCIL

The training of young people. Mission statement:Scouting actively engages and supports young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,173,589, which is well above the trustees' stated policy target of £230,850. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £62,201 for the year and confirmed it is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin James Howard
• Brendan Booth
• Christopher Root
• Claire Louise Mitchell
• John Godber · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robin Henry Charles Hill
• Russell Charles Taplin
• Shirley Marden

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENT COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• KENT COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.1m
• CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £101k
• WEST SUSSEX COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £195k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k
• EXETER AND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £198k
• CUMBRIA COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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