SEVENOAKS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 303435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEVENOAKS AND DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION

Purpose of Scouting: To actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society. Values of Scouting: Scouts are guided by the values of Integrity, Respect, Care, Belief and Co-operation.Scout Method: Scouting takes place when young people, in partnership with adults, work together based on the values of Scouting.

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: SEVENOAKS AND DISTRICT

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 total cash funds amounted to £558,183 at the end of the financial year, with an additional £61,662 held in investment units. The trustees have allocated £25,000 as a reserve, noting that the level of reserves is varied through annual budgeting according to perceived future needs and risks.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Paul Hitchingschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Erik Jonathan Barrow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Baker-Hirst
• Joanna Gail Brookbank · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Frederick Cox
• Michael Brendan Randall
• Michael Herbert Schwarz · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Geoffrey Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Patrick Maurice Rainey
• Richard Mark Williams
• Verena Carmichael

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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