ST LUKE'S (MAIDSTONE) SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 303416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST LUKE'S MAIDSTONE BOY SCOUT GROUP

Provides training and activities for young people aged 6 years to 14 years by providing a balanced programme of activities to meet the needs of today.

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: MAIDSTONE

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group recorded a significant surplus of £102,910 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a £115,302 legacy donation. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves increased substantially to £140,970, providing a strong financial position following the purchase of the group's freehold land.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES MARTINchair
• Clare Foulsham
• DEREK FRED LONG · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Keith Hubble
• GAVIN JAMES MILLS
• Halvor Wood
• James William Lakin
• Sarah Margaret Wood · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 13TH STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE (1ST ALSAGER) SCOUT GROUP.

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• WEYMOUTH WEST SCOUT GROUP income £728k
• 1ST CLAYGATE SCOUT GROUP income £188k
• 1ST WHITSTABLE SCOUT GROUP income £182k
• 9TH DONCASTER SCOUT GROUP income £229k
• 1ST CUDDINGTON SEA SCOUT GROUP income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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