ROMFORD DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 303701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROMFORD AND DISTRICT LOCAL ASSOCIATION BOY SCOUTS

THE PROVISION OF SCOUTING TO THE YOUTH OF HAVERING

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: ROMFORD AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity sold its district headquarters in August 2024 and invested the proceeds in one-year instruments to mitigate inflation while seeking a new building. The charity reports stability, with membership exceeding pre-pandemic levels and a new minibus purchased for over £53,000.

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
• 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
• 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~146.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (85% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Pardon
• Chris Bennett
• Colin Shepherd
• Dean Jefferys
• Elizabeth Godden
• Geoffrey Frederick Hutton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jack Tape
• Julien Rawle
• PENELOPE WILLIAMS
• Reece Wiltshire

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

Operates in: Havering

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ICKNIELD (LUTON) DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL.

• ICKNIELD (LUTON) DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £141k
• WARWICK DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £136k
• ARROW DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £159k
• NEW GREENWICH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £120k
• SOUTH MARCHES DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £160k
• BLACKDOWN DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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