AVON COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 302146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVON COUNTY SCOUTS, BRISTOL BOY SCOUTS COUNTY ASSOCIATION, THE SCOUT COUNTY OF AVON

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: FORMER COUNTY OF AVON

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

Causes: Education/training · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £40,592 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £626,900. The trustees consider the financial position sustainable in the long term, supported by an operational surplus from the Woodhouse Park Activity Centre and maintained reserves policies. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and holds no defined benefit pension deficits.

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 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert George Symonschair
• Antony Cole
• Antony William Rees
• Clive Robert Sandrey
• David Milton
• Edward Burke
• GARY JOHN BARRON
• Jed Williams
• Mark Anthony Lee
• Silvia Louisa Boschetto
• Stephanie Helen Francis
• Stephen Patrick McKenna

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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
• LEWISHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £470k
• EXETER AND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £198k
• KENNET DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £124k
• GREATER LONDON MIDDLESEX WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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